in the possession of the elements of primitive German civilisation and the common germs of German institutions. … It is to ancient Germany that we must look for the earliest traces of our forefathers, for the best part of almost all of us is originally German: though we call ourselves Britons, the name has only a geographical significance. The blood that is in our veins comes from German ancestors.[ 28][ 28] Hugh160;A. 160;MacDougall, Racial Myth in English History…,. pantalons lacoste soldes ..suite 29 Stubbs was a high Tory. Edward Freeman, his successor as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, was a Gladstonian Liberal. But he, even more than Stubbs, presented history in racial terms. Three successive Aryan nations, the Greek, the Roman and the Teuton, he wrote, were destined 'to be the rulers and teachers of the world.' By Teuton, he evidently meant mainly the English or British. Sac lune vanessa bruno pas cher [ 29][ 29] Ibid. , p. 160;100. ...suite 30 As Christians, Stubbs, Freeman and the other historians were constrained to accept the principle of monogenesis. veste femme ralph lauren Some such as Dilke and Stubbs, however, evidently excluded non-whites from humankind. And with the rapid expansion of the Empire in Asia and Africa in the latter part of the nineteenth century the racial character of Britain's origins became steadily more accepted among the Britain's -160;or at least England's160;- educated classes. This created a potentially disorienting situation when in March160;1898 the German Reichstag adopted the first Navy expansion bill. In the following fifteen years Germany's challenge to Britain's naval supremacy aroused increasing suspicion among diplomats and senior officials at the Foreign Office, while fears of a German surprise attack, the subject of several best-selling novels, provoked outbursts of public anger.[ 30][ 30] Hew Strachan, The First World War, vol. 160;I, op. 160;cit.suite160; 21 Rudyard Kipling, perhaps the most influential writer of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, addressed the issue of the Norman Conquest several times in his fictional writing. As an Anglo-Saxon people who had succumbed to the Normans, he regarded the English as both a colonised and colonising nation. This informed his ambivalent view of the British empire, but also his conviction that the English were uniquely suited to govern other peoples on account of their capacity to see both sides of the imperial project.[ 24][ 24] Deanne Williams, 'Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest',...suite 22 Kingsley, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge from160;1860 to160;1869, wrote of the English as Teutons who had settled in Britain 'to till the ground in comparative peace, keeping unbroken the old Teutonic laws, unstained the old Teutonic faith and virtue. survetement adidas pas cher ..' He stressed the ennobling legacy of England's German link: 23 if our English law, our English ideas of justice and mercy, have retained, more than most European codes, the freedom, the truthfulness, the kindliness, of the old Teutonic laws, we owe it to the fact, that England escaped, more than any other land, the taint of effete Roman civilization; that she therefore first of the lands, in the 12th century, rebelled against, and first of them, in the 16th160;century, threw off, the Ultramontane yoke. 24 Kingsley, however, was not only a devoted Christian but also an unself-conscious imperialist and racist who had corresponded with Darwin and seems to have been captured by the idea of natural selection among human races. Accordingly, for him the mission of the Teuton -160;including the modern Englishman160;- was universal, for 'the welfare of the Teutonic race is the welfare of the world.'[ 25][ 25] Charles Kingsley, The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of.. veste femme ralph lauren pas cher .suite And as he wrote on another occasion, 25 The truest benevolence is occasional severity. It is expedient that one man die for the people. One tribe exterminated, if need be, to save a whole continent, "sacrifice of human life?" Prove that it is human life.'[ 26][ 26] Reginald Horsman, 'Origins of Racial Anglo-Saxonism in... Survetement pas cher suite 26 Sir Charles Dilke, a Liberal radical and also a fervent imperialist and racist, published a widely popular account of his travels through the English-speaking world, Greater Britain, in160;1868, which went through four editions. Reflecting Darwin's influence, Dilke anticipated a racial struggle that ended with the triumph of the Anglo-Saxons and 'the gradual extinction of the inferior races which is not only a law of nature, but a blessing to mankind.'[ 27][ 27] Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain: A Record of Travel...suite 27 John Stubbs, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford from160;1866 to160;1884, similarly emphasised England's Germanic racial and cultural origins. In his words, 28 The English are a people of German descent in the main constituents of blood character and language, but most especially .
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..suite 29 Stubbs was a high Tory. Edward Freeman, his successor as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, was a Gladstonian Liberal. But he, even more than Stubbs, presented history in racial terms. Three successive Aryan nations, the Greek, the Roman and the Teuton, he wrote, were destined 'to be the rulers and teachers of the world.' By Teuton, he evidently meant mainly the English or British. Sac lune vanessa bruno pas cher [ 29][ 29] Ibid. , p. 160;100. ...suite 30 As Christians, Stubbs, Freeman and the other historians were constrained to accept the principle of monogenesis. veste femme ralph lauren
Some such as Dilke and Stubbs, however, evidently excluded non-whites from humankind. And with the rapid expansion of the Empire in Asia and Africa in the latter part of the nineteenth century the racial character of Britain's origins became steadily more accepted among the Britain's -160;or at least England's160;- educated classes. This created a potentially disorienting situation when in March160;1898 the German Reichstag adopted the first Navy expansion bill. In the following fifteen years Germany's challenge to Britain's naval supremacy aroused increasing suspicion among diplomats and senior officials at the Foreign Office, while fears of a German surprise attack, the subject of several best-selling novels, provoked outbursts of public anger.[ 30][ 30] Hew Strachan, The First World War, vol. 160;I, op. 160;cit.suite160; 21 Rudyard Kipling, perhaps the most influential writer of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, addressed the issue of the Norman Conquest several times in his fictional writing. As an Anglo-Saxon people who had succumbed to the Normans, he regarded the English as both a colonised and colonising nation. This informed his ambivalent view of the British empire, but also his conviction that the English were uniquely suited to govern other peoples on account of their capacity to see both sides of the imperial project.[ 24][ 24] Deanne Williams, 'Rudyard Kipling and the Norman Conquest',...suite 22 Kingsley, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge from160;1860 to160;1869, wrote of the English as Teutons who had settled in Britain 'to till the ground in comparative peace, keeping unbroken the old Teutonic laws, unstained the old Teutonic faith and virtue. survetement adidas pas cher
..' He stressed the ennobling legacy of England's German link: 23 if our English law, our English ideas of justice and mercy, have retained, more than most European codes, the freedom, the truthfulness, the kindliness, of the old Teutonic laws, we owe it to the fact, that England escaped, more than any other land, the taint of effete Roman civilization; that she therefore first of the lands, in the 12th century, rebelled against, and first of them, in the 16th160;century, threw off, the Ultramontane yoke. 24 Kingsley, however, was not only a devoted Christian but also an unself-conscious imperialist and racist who had corresponded with Darwin and seems to have been captured by the idea of natural selection among human races. Accordingly, for him the mission of the Teuton -160;including the modern Englishman160;- was universal, for 'the welfare of the Teutonic race is the welfare of the world.'[ 25][ 25] Charles Kingsley, The Roman and the Teuton: A Series of.. veste femme ralph lauren pas cher .suite And as he wrote on another occasion, 25 The truest benevolence is occasional severity. It is expedient that one man die for the people. One tribe exterminated, if need be, to save a whole continent, "sacrifice of human life?" Prove that it is human life.'[ 26][ 26] Reginald Horsman, 'Origins of Racial Anglo-Saxonism in... Survetement pas cher
suite 26 Sir Charles Dilke, a Liberal radical and also a fervent imperialist and racist, published a widely popular account of his travels through the English-speaking world, Greater Britain, in160;1868, which went through four editions. Reflecting Darwin's influence, Dilke anticipated a racial struggle that ended with the triumph of the Anglo-Saxons and 'the gradual extinction of the inferior races which is not only a law of nature, but a blessing to mankind.'[ 27][ 27] Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain: A Record of Travel...suite 27 John Stubbs, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford from160;1866 to160;1884, similarly emphasised England's Germanic racial and cultural origins. In his words, 28 The English are a people of German descent in the main constituents of blood character and language, but most especially .