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[PEN-L:1379] Re: Re: The Honor of the Anglo-Saxons

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Re: [PEN-L:1368] Re: The Honor of the Anglo-Saxons
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<div>&gt;Anglo-Saxons were racially related to the &quot;healthy&quot;
Germanic tribes and<br>
&gt;beat back the decadent Normans. Sir Walter Scott was a
treasure-chest of<br>
&gt;this sort of nonsense, as Horsman points out, &quot;Ivanhoe&quot;
in particular.<br>
&gt;Thomas Jefferson believed in this garbage and wrote reams about
how the new<br>
&gt;republic fulfilled the promise of Anglo-Saxon civilization, which
in turn<br>
&gt;was the product of Germanic tribes. The &quot;democracy&quot; of
the infant American<br>
&gt;republic was supposed to be an expression of this heroic race's
destiny...</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Hige sceal ye
heardra,&nbsp;&nbsp; heorte ye cenre,<br>
Mod sceal ye mare,&nbsp;&nbsp; ye ure mægen lytlaeth!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000">Brad
DeLong</font><br>
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