A
MATTER OF A LESSON IN HISTORY FOR SOME OF
THOSE MILITANT NEWCOMERS FROM AN ISLAMIC
BACKGROUND WHO HAVE FAILED TO UNDERSTAND
THAT THEY MUST ADJUST AS THE MANY OTHER
INFLOWS OVER THE PAST 1500 YEARS.
The
growth of national character under these
changes is a matter of further interest.
Although the national experience was not
enough to produce a strong and thorough
feeling of union, it had been equable and
general. No part of England was far behind
any other in civilisation. The several
kingdoms had been Christianised in rapid
succession, and the amalgamation of the
Danes had been speedy as little to affect
the comparative civilisation of the
districts they occupied after it had once
fairly begun. Northumbria had indeed never
recovered the learning and cultivation of
her early days, but Kent and Wessex had
retrograded nearly as much during the dark
century that preceded Alfred [THE GREAT].
The
depression of national life under Ethelred
was much the same everywhere. the free men
learned that he had little beyond his own
arm and the circle of his friends to trust
to. The cohesion of the nation was greatest
in the lower ranges. Family, township,
hundred, county, held together when
ealdorman was struggling with ealdorman and
the king was left in isolated dignity. Kent,
Devonshire, Northumbria had a corporate life
which England had not, or which she could
not bring to action in the greatest
emergencies. The witenagemot represented
the wisdom, but concentrated neither the
power nor the will, of a nation.
The
individual Englishman must have been formed
under circumstances that called forth much
self-reliance and little hearty patriotism.
His sympathies must have run into very
narrow and provincial channels. His own
home and parish were more to him than the
house of Cerdic or the safety of the
nation. As a Christian, too, he had more
real, more appreciable social duties than as
an Englishman. He could accept Sweyn or
Canute, if he would be a good lord and not
change the laws or customs that regulated
his daily life. There was a strong sense of
social freedom without much care about
political power. It was inherent in the
blood, Caesar had seen it in the ancient
German, and in the empire of Charles and
Otto strove in vain to remodel it in the
medieval aggregation of the German-speaking
nationalities; Bavarian, Saxon, Franconian,
Swabian, were even less inclined to
recognise their unity than were the nations
which now called themselves
ENGLISH
The
form however which this tendency took in the
Anglo-Saxon of the eleventh century, is
distinct from the corresponding phases of
French and German character. The Frenchman
can indeed scarcely be said as yet to have
developed any national character; or rather
the heavy hand of Frank supremacy had not so
far relaxed its pressure as to allow the
elastic nature of the Gallic element to
assert itself; and the historical Frank of
the age is still in part German...
But
there is only one aspect of the English man.
he may be phlegmatic, narrow , languid in
political development, but he is neither
uncivilised nor uncultivated. The isolation
which has been fatal to political growth,
has encouraged and concentrated other
energies. Since the time of ALFRED THE
GREAT a national literature has been growing
up, of which the very fragments that have
survived the revolution of conquest and many
centuries of literary neglect, are greater
that the native con- temporaneous literature
of any other people in Europe. No other
nation possesses a body of history such as
the Anglo-Saxon Bede and the Chronicles.
The theological literature, although slight
in comparison with the Latin-speaking
nations, testifies, by the fact that it is
in the tongue of the people, to a far more
thorough religious sympathy between teachers
and the taught that can be with any degree
of probability attributed to the continental
churches .
In
medicine, natural science, grammar,
geography, the English of the eleventh
century had manuals in their own tongue.
They had arts too of their own; goldsmith's
work, embroidery, illumination of
manuscripts, flourished as well as the craft
of weaver and the armourer. The domestic
civilisation of England with all its
drawbacks, was far beyond France.
The
Norman knights despised, undervalued and
destroyed much that they could not
comprehend. England was behind Europe in
some of the arts which they had in common,
but she had much that was her own, and
developed what she had in common, by her own
genius. She might be behind in
architecture, although that remains to be
proved, for much that we know as the work of
Northern architects was imitated from Roman
models; an imitation which although it later
developed into systems far freer and nobler
than anything that had existed before, was
still only advancing from its rudest stage
in France and Germany.
England
was slow in following the architecture as
she was in following the politics of the
continent. It is seldom remembered in
comparing Norman and Anglo-Saxon in point of
civilisation, how little the Norman brought
in comparison with what he destroyed, and
how very little he brought that was his
own. His law was Frank or Lombard, his
general cultivation that of Lanfranc and
Anselm, far more Italian than native: in
civilisation-taken in the truer sense of the
word- in the organisation of the social
life, in the means of obtaining speedy and
equal justice, in the whole domain of
national jurisprudence, he was far behind
those whom he despised with the insolence of
a barbarian; he had forgotten his own
language, he had no literature, his art was
foreign and purchased. he was splendid
soldier, he had seen the great world east
and west, he knew the balance of power
between popes and emperors; and he was a
conqueror: he held the rod of discipline
which was to school England to the knowledge
of her own strength and power of freedom: he
was to drag her into the general network of
the spiritual and temporal politics of the
world, rousing her thereby to a
consciousness of unsuspected undeveloped
powers:
HE WAS TO GIVE HER NEW DIRECTION TO HER
ENERGIES TO WIDEN AND UNITE AND CONSOLIDATE
HER SYMPATHIES: TO TRAIN HER TO LOYALTY AND
PATRIOTISM; AND IN THE PROCESS TO IMPART SO
MUCH, THAT WHEN THE TIME OF AWAKING CAME,
THE CONQUEROR AND THE CONQUERED, THE RACE OF
THE OPPRESSOR AND THE RACE OF THE OPPRESSED
WERE TO FIND THEMSELVES ONE PEOPLE.
TO BE
CONTINUED.
Constitutional History of England-Vol
1-National Character-William Stubbs, M.A
Regius
Professor of Modern History
OXFORD.
1875
JUNE-2014
[The many erudite works of the Islamic World
were hidden from the West for many centuries
.]
ALFRED THE GREAT - KING OF THE ENGLISH-PART 1
CHRISTIANITY,
THE
PEOPLE,
AND
ETHICS-PART
1
WHY
CAN'T WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE ENGLISH-PART 1
WHY
BOTHER TO COME IF YOU DON'T INTEGRATE- SAYS
SIR TREVOR McDONALD
MAKING OF LONDONISTAN
The politically-correct and multicultural
idiots who are putting into the hands of
Islamic Fundamentalists the future direction
of England's religious and cultural past
have not understood the the gravity of
the THREAT! of the formation of an Islamic
State over the next few generations due to
the high birth-rate of the Muslim population
of at least 5-1 which would change the face
and character of England for EVER!
Moderate Muslims within our community have
been warning the indigenous population for a
number of years knowing how stupid and
knowing how naive many of our countrymen
and women are living in cloud cookoo-land in
not seeing the real danger which is raising
from the ground within some of the
Mosques and schools and homes of those who
place their FAITH before THEIR LIFE a force
that suffers NO DEFEAT and NO SURRENDER
which our main-stream politicians have in
the main failed to see the DANGER!
FIRST! we must exit the EU and with its the
HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS .
SECOND!-Those who do not intend to INTEGRATE
will be asked TO LEAVE-nicely - but FIRMLY.
THIRD!- A written constitution to be invoked
to PROTECT the RELIGION and CULTURE of the
ENGLISH PEOPLE .
FOUR!-We live in an ISLAND HOME of limited
SPACE and therefore there must be a
POPULATION LIMIT which should be
considerably than it is today in JUNE
-2014. This will allow our reserves of POWER
to be LESS and much of our AGRICULTURE able
to be supplied mainly from HOME sources with
the latest TECHNOLOGY.
If there was one country in the world which
had everything on its doorstep with a
coastline it could defend and choose its
visitors it was ENGLAND with its historic
neighbours WALES and SCOTLAND. It was
the TREASON of the MONARCHY and PARLIAMENT
that SOLD our ISLAND HOME into the HANDS of
members of the FOURTH REICH in 1972. The
EVIDENCE is CLEAR for ALL TO SEE.
The FAULT was also of the once stiff-necked
COMMON PEOPLE who should have taken more
care of their illustrious ISLAND HOME and
what it truly meant to FUTURE GENERATIONS.
THE REST IS DOWN TO
YOU!
VOTE
UKIP
IN
MAY 2015
ALFRED THE GREAT - KING OF THE
ENGLISH-PART 1
CHRISTIANITY,
THE
PEOPLE,
AND
ETHICS-PART
1
WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE ENGLISH-PART 1
WHY BOTHER TO COME IF YOU DON'T INTEGRATE SAYS SIR
TREVOR McDONALD
MAKING OF LONDONISTAN
JUNE 11-2014 |