On the Art of Writing

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On the Art of Writing
Quiller-Couch Arthur Thomas Sir
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Dane, Norman, Frisian, French Huguenot--they all come in. And will yourefuse a hearing when I claim that the Roman came in too? Bethink you howdeeply Rome engraved itself on this island and its features. Bethink youthat, as human nature is, no conquering race ever lived or couldlive--even in garrison--among a tributary one without begetting childrenon it. Bethink you yet further of Freeman's admission that in thewholesale (and quite hypothetical) general massacre 'the women doubtlesswould be la
...rgely spared'; and you advance nearer to my point. I see apeople which for four hundred years was permeated by Rome. If you insiston its being a Teutonic people (which I flatly deny) then you have onewhich _alone of Teutonic peoples_ has inherited the Roman gift ofconsolidating conquest, of colonising in the wake of its armies; ofdriving the road, bridging the ford, bringing the lawless under itssense of law. I see that this nation of ours concurrently, when it seeksback to what alone can inspire and glorify these activities, seeks back, not to any supposed native North, but south to the Middle Sea of ourcivilisation and steadily to Italy, which we understand far more easilythan France--though France has helped us times and again.

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