The horrible persecution under which so many thousands had sunk had produced its inevitable result.

Fertilized by all this innocent blood, the soil of the Netherlands became as a watered garden, in which liberty, civil and religious, was to flourish perennially.

The scaffold had its daily victims, but did not make a single convert.

The statistics of these crimes will perhaps never be accurately adjusted, nor will it be ascertained whether the famous estimate of Grotius was an exaggerated or an inadequate calculation.

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