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Excerpt from Suvoroff
The fall of Poland may be traced to the fact that while the various States of Europe were gradually emerging from mediaeval anarchy through the consolidation of the royal power, that kingdom was undergoing a con trary process - the nobility were constantly encroaching on the rights of the Crown. Scotland and Sweden en dured the miseries of feudal tyranny till late in the six teenth century, but Poland had not freed herself from them late in the eighteenth. Commerce being carried on by the Jews, she possessed no middle class to whom the Crown might look for support against the aristocracy.
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