[ssf] Don't let em bring in the cleansing machines! [1]

[2 % human]

18/03/05 00:50 Jase wrote:
> ...  We are bonded by laws of state
> rather than laws of friendship in this mobile world. The movement of people,
> within and without the shores of this island, has heralded the dissolving of
> community.

"Here [1] commences the history of the English nation. The history of 
the proceeding events is the history of wrongs inflicted and sustained 
by various tribes, which indeed all dwelt on English ground, but which 
regarded each other with aversion such as has scarcely ever existed 
between communities separated by physical barriers.

For even the mutual animosity of countries at war with each other is 
languid when compared with the animosity of nations which, morally 
separate, are yet locally intermingled. In no country has the enmity of 
race been carried farther than England. In no country as that enmity 
been completely effaced.

The stages of the process by which the hostile elements were melted down 
into one homogeneous mass are not accurately known to us. But it is 
certain that, when John became King, the distinction between Saxons and 
Normans was strongly marked, and that before the end of the reign of his 
grandson it had almost disappeared.

In the time of Richard the First, the ordinary imprecation of a Norman 
Gentleman was 'May I become an Englishman !' His ordinary form of 
indignant denial was 'Do you take me for an Englishman ?' The decedent 
of such a gentleman a hundred years later was proud of the English name."

--
Macaulay

[1] 1066 and all that