I say that our work lies quite outside Parliament, and it is to help
to educate the people by every and any means that may be effective;
and the knowledge we have to help them to is threefold--to know their
own, to know how to take their own, and to know how to use their own.



FEUDAL ENGLAND



It is true that the Norman Conquest found a certain kind of feudality
in existence in England--a feudality which was developed from the
customs of the Teutonic tribes with no admixture of Roman law; and
also that even before the Conquest this country was slowly beginning
to be mixed up with the affairs of the Continent of Europe, and that
not only with the kindred nations of Scandinavia, but with the
Romanized countries also. But the Conquest of Duke William did
introduce the complete Feudal system into the country; and it also
connected it by strong bonds to the Romanized countries, and yet by
so doing laid the first foundations of national feeling in England.
The English felt their kinship with the Norsemen or the Danes, and
did not suffer from their conquests when they had become complete,
and when, consequently, mere immediate violence had disappeared from
them; their feeling was tribal rather than national; but they could
have no sense of tribal unity with the varied populations of the
provinces which mere dynastical events had strung together into the
dominion, the manor, one may say, of the foreign princes of Normandy
and Anjou; and, as the kings who ruled them gradually got pushed out