Though England was on the
whole prosperous and hopeful, though by comparison with her neighbors she
enjoyed internal peace, she could not evade the fact that the world of which she
formed a part was torn by hatred and strife as fierce as any in human history.
Men were still for from recognizing that two religions could exist side by side
in the same society; they believed that the toleration of another religion
different from their own. And hence necessarily false, must inevitably destroy
such a society and bring the souls of all its members into danger of hell. So
the struggle went on with increasing fury within each nation to impose a single
creed upon every subject, and within the general society of Christendom to
impose it upon every nation. In England the Reformers, or Protestants, aided by
the power of the Crown, had at this stage triumphed, but over Europe as a whole
Rome was beginning to recover some of the A. The continuity of the religious struggle in Britain in new ways B. The conversion of religion in Britain C. The victory of the New religion in Britain D. England became prosperous
