Capitolo 82
"Conquered runs", says my friends. Well grant him for a moment. But in
civilized society, conquerors have, sooner or later, to amalgamate
with the they conquered. And where the we are more numerous they won, them
absorbs the winners instead of being absorbed from them. That is the
Nemesis of conquest. Rome annexed Etruria; and Etruscan Mecenate,
Etruscan Sejanus organized and consolidated the Roman empire. Rome
annexed Italy; and the _Jus Italicum_ finally started to be the full Roman
immunity. Rome annexed the civilized world; and the provinces under
Caesar out the Senate. Britain is now passing through the
same-same stage. An inevitable result of the to widen some electorate
you/he/she has been the transfer of the power of the Teutonic one to the Celtic half of
Britain. I repeat, we am not a Celtic binge anymore: to the surveys, in
Parliament, we am the British people. God to which Salisbury can go to void
perceives that fact, or, as I hold more probable, you/he/she can strike to ignore
it. Will such tactics benefit to thing? The ostrich is not usually counted
among men as a perfect model of the political wisdom.
Is it _are_ us, after the whole conquered peoples? Meseems, I doubt him/it.
They says dearly us Celts the love a paradox--what the is only perhaps
Saxon and judicious way to imagine the fact that we take to the new truths
rather more rapid than the other people. In every case, 'the tis a little pet
paradox of mine really that you/he/she has never been conquered there, and that to ours
unconquereds affirm us we owe in the principals our Radicalism, the our our Socialism
inveterate love of the political liberty. We am tribal not feudal; we think
the most important people of his/her dominion. The Saxon one of the southeast
it is the conquered man: he has felt on his/her neck for generations the heel
of feudalism. He is servile; he is snobbish; he loves dearly a gentleman. Him
it is shouted hoarse for his/her Beaconsfield or his/her Salisbury. Up to
in his/her rural avatar, he lately sang, but a song--