Says a recent lecturer
ancestry." on "Anglo-Saxon history vs. Latin
Imperialism.'* "Our Saxon-En- They are the dregs of humanity
glish ancestors were indeed sauaqe,
uthlea&,-
WOOD AND THUNDER
Mr. Taine in his remarkably,
successful boolc on English litera
ture seems to take a French rel
ish in describing these "fine old
English gentlemen of the real old
kind.'' Ho says of them:
"Huge white bodies, cold blood
ed, with fierce blue eyes, reddish
flaxen hair, ravenous stomachs
filled with meat and cheese,
Heated by Strong Drink
of a cold temperament, slow to
love, home-stayers, prone to bru
tal drnnkeneM, pirates at first
of all kinds of hunting, the man
hunt most profitable and most no
ble. They dashed to sea in their
two sailed "barks, landed any
where, killed everything, and
having sacrificed in honor of their
gods the tithe of their prisoners,
and leaving behind them the red
light of their burnings went fur
ther on to begin again." A fine
picture.
Suppose that some of the cotem
porary nations, whose civilization
datedjar backward, had said of
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lack of opportunity to rise in the
scale of social life, and arc less to
blame for their inferior condition
than the lawmakers and the lax
efforts of many christians.
