Not very long after this gift to the two tribes, the English and Dutch, having quarrelled with the Romish Priests, refused to worship the Pope and denied his authority. The Dutch first, and then the English, growing more powerful in ships, made distant forays for plunder and trade; and, following the tracks of the Portugals and Spaniards, disregarded their pretended _exclusive_ title to the _Heathen_. They determined to have a portion of this general transfer of the world to _Christians_; they were in their own judgment the better, the _Reformed_ Christians, and far better entitled! Since this enormous Blasphemy [Swa-tze] of the Pope, History, as known to the Barbarians, has been, to a large extent, an account of its consequences. Wars between the contending _Christians_ for the distant possessions, and savage and cruel depopulation, plunder, and subjugation of the unoffending inhabitants. Whole races of men have melted away in the presence of these Christ-god worshippers; and the horrors of the dreadful Superstition, which in the regions of Europe had made man more like the Devil of his Idolatry than anything human, spread, with fire and sword, over the wide world! In the far West, beneath the setting sun, a beautiful and peaceful people, rich and numerous, suffered cruelties too shocking to tell; and in the civilised and populous East, the very name of _Christian_ became a synonym of all that is detestable. None the less, the English Barbarians, to this day, acting upon these Christ-god pretensions, will insist that this _Trade and Plunder_ is the _handmaid_ of Enlightenment, the chief agent in the preparing of the World for a knowledge of the true gods, and the ultimate salvation of the Heathen! Trade is, therefore, a civilising agency and a powerful helper in the redemption of mankind from the awful Hell. A few poor Missionaries are sometimes added to the general cargo of _means of conversion_. The same ship which transports these Bonzes to convert the benighted _pagans_ will, perhaps, have a few volumes of the _Sacred Writings_, some bad rum, worse muskets (more dangerous to him who shoots than to him to whom the shot is directed), gunpowder, flimsy articles too poor for home trade; to these, add the licentious and degraded sailors; and one sees how well the English Barbarians work to introduce their true worship and save the Heathen! But this is feeble: only a trade-ship. The great fire-ships, with big cannons, full of armed and fierce barbarians, which devastate the populous coasts, and burn and plunder the maritime parts--_these_ are illustrious workers in the spread of the Christ-god _Salvation_ and a lofty Civilization! Thus the very worship of the Barbarians has helped, by its cruel pretensions, to _ingrain_ a wrong notion--one making them immoral and cruel. Taking the _Jah_ of the old, huckstering Jews, as an object of idolatry, the whole people has, in trade, become _Jewish_, as in much else.