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9. LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE. 43
see, in the time of Olof Skotkonung. In these indepen
dent social and political institutions we have features of
Swedish life which have been in one form or another very
persistent throughout its history, and which account for
much which would be otherwise inexplicable, especially for
the recuperative power of the nation after its exhaustion by
foreign wars.
This concise sketch of a great subject, the Heathen
Period of Swedish history, may, I hope, be sufficient to
interest you in what is to follow. We cannot fail to see the
unity and continuity of this history. We comprehend
already that certain great principles underlie it and pene
trate it. We perceive that we have to do with a noble and
a strong people, and we can trace the hand of God already
beginning their education for their destiny among the
nations.
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