A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 8
It was transitory glory and superficial unity; for there it was anybody true
possibility of a national state in Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Danish England,
and the whole meaning of history English is lost in to antedate that
attainment from many one hundred years. Edgar could do anybody more than escapes
difficulty and it temporizes with problems that the imperceptible growth
alone you/he/she could resolve; and the idealistic portraits of first England are not
deduced by the life, but it inhaled from a belief in the good old days and a
the unconscious appreciation of the value of polemical of such theory in
political controversy. Tacitus, a Roman aristocratic splenetic, had
satirized the degeneration of the empire under the semblance of a description
of the primitive virtues of Utopian Germany; and theoretical modern
you/he/she has found in his/her _Germania_ an armoury of weapon democratic
against aristocracy and despotism. From this gilded age the Angles and
You supposes that Saxons has deduced a political system, in that more
men were free and it equalize, while possessing in common their earth, debating and
deciding in folkmoots the problems of the peace and it wages war, while electing their kings
(if some), and respecting them as them only till now they inhaled respect. These
idyllic setups, if theirs ever existed, you don't escape the stress
of the migration and the struggle with the Celts. Begat of the war the king,
and soon the church baptized him/it and inveterate its power with unction
and biblical precedents. The meeting of the people became the meeting of the
Wise (Witan), and only that were wise of who wisdom was apparent to the
king. The Community of good and the equality of ownership the stormed down
the enormous appropriation involved in the conquest of Britain; and when, later
their conversion to the Christianity, the barbarians learnt to write and
authentic record and gone away, they reveals a state of society that bears some
similarity to that of medieval England but few to that of the
gilded and mythical age.
On a nation of citizens in arm a class had been overlapped of