To the north of Austrasia lay Frisia, which seems to have been in some equivocal means a dependency, and to the east of Frisia, from the left bank of the Ems (about the current Holland-Westphalia frontier), across the valley of the Weser and Aller, and nonetheless eastward to the left financial institution of the Elbe, extended the nation of the Saxons, who in no style whatever acknowledged any allegiance to the Frankish kings. The spirit of capitalism, in the sense by which we are utilizing th...