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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;areich, post: 1434063, member: 37479&quot;]Hmm</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe but historically the strength of the Dutch Republic played a cultural and political break with European History.&nbsp; In order to understand the impact of Dutch society means looking past the history.&nbsp; To look at the history, one might be hesitant to view them as tolerant.&nbsp; They did, after all, eat the heart of their Grand Pensioner in 1672 and hanged its greatest liberal politician, Oldenbarnevelt, in a religious war between Remonstrance and&nbsp; Counter-Remonstrants, or the destruction of icons in the late 1500&#039;s in both southern and northern Netherlands.</p><p><br /></p><p>When one studies Dutch art of the period, one sees the tremendous difference in Dutch cultural life from the rest of Europe and it paved the way for the Modern Europe, infecting England, and transforming France, perhaps setting the pace for the French Revolution not much later, and leading Germany to secularization.&nbsp; In a word, the Dutch had proven how a people could live a good life, with tolerance and practical humility and exported that to everyone else though their arts and literature (and Navy). Their invasion of take over of the English Government by William and Mary was the end of the last grasps of the Middle Ages.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amanda[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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