The Anglo-American Magazine, 1901 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Anglo-American Magazine, 1901 It is a far cry from King Edward VII. to his great ancestor Alfred, and much water has passed under the bridges of London during that thousand years which stretch between the time of England´s first great sovereign and her latest Queen. Of all her rulers not one holds so great a meed of affection as these two. The little Saxon kingdom of Wessex, struggling for very existence against Berserk hordes of Northmen, has expanded into the greatest power the world has ever known or is ever likely to know. Nation after nation has sprung from her loins and waxed mighty. Her people have beaten their way across the seven seas, and wrested new and sullen lands from inclement nature till they blossomed like the English rose. Church and school and the incessant hum of industry have followed the path of the Anglo-Saxon, and with them has always gone the fierce love of liberty inherited from Alfred and his followers, who might be driven like wild beasts to the Selwood Forest, but who were not to be subdued since they counted freedom more than life. The feudal system has come and gone, and revolutions and reforms have changed the political face of many lands. Countless leaders have risen to bid the people follow them; some mere blind leaders of the blind, others wise and strong men guiding their peoples into light; but among them all never a more perfect leader has stood the test of time than the Saxon Alfred, and never one more universally beloved unless it may be his great descendant Victoria. Throughout the whole of his life the English people were engaged in a life and death battle for individual and national existence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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