Excerpt from Northern Antiquities, Vol. 2 of 2 This is not all the advantage of this Rudy: Without 11 our knowledge of man kind mutt be extremely fuperficial. Who knows not the influence which Religion has on manners and laws Intimately blended, as it were, with the original formation of dierent nations, it dirts and governs all their thoughts and aetions. In one place we fee it enfoming and fupporting defpo tifm; in another refiraining it: It has con fiituted the very foul and fpirit of more than one republic. Conquerors have fro quently been unable to deprefs it, even'. By force; and it is generally either the foul to animate or the arm to execute the Ope rations of politics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.