ANALYSIS.  1.  Failure  of  attempts  to  organize  a  government  truly  national.  State  of
Europe  at  the  close  of  the  fifteenth  century.  The  sixteenth  century— the  Reformation  and  ab-
solute monarchy.  The  contest  that  naturally  followed  the  Reformation.  The  English  Revolu-
tion.—2.  The  two  causes  why  the  political  revolution  broke  out  in  England  sooner  than  on  the
continent.
3.  How  the  Reformation  in  England  had  been  accomplished.  No  changes  in  faith  allowed
by  Henry  VIII.  The  English  Church,  as  established  in  the  reign  of  Edward  VI.  The  compro-
mise effected  by  Cranmer. — 4.  How  the  Church  of  England  was  regarded  by  Luther  and  Calvin.
Its  doctrines  imposed  by  the  king's  supremacy  alone.  Declarations  of  the  Puritans.  The  com-
promise effected  by  Cranmer  regarded  as  only  a  partial  reform. — 5.  The  demand  for  farther
reformation.  Why  political  liberty  was  invoked.  Persecution  and  its  effects.  The  Revolution
grew  out  of  the  partial  suppression  of  the  Reformation.
6.  The  second  cause  that  hurried  on  a  political  revolution  in  England.  The  free  institutions
of  England.  Magna  Charta. — 7.  The  English  House  of  Commons : — under  the  Plantaganets —
under  the  Tudor  princes.— 8.  Other  liberal  institutions,— their  tendencies,  &c.  The  result.
9.  The  career  of  monarchy  on  the  continent — unchecked  there,  but  resisted  in  England. — 10.
