A trip to England [microform]

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by  Smith, Goldwin, 1823-1910

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A TRIP T05ENGL4ND.
'T seems useful in visiting a country to
have not only a guide to ])laces and
routes, but a framework for obser-
''^^ vations and recollections. Otherwise
the effect produced on the \ Mna of the
mind is apt to be like that produced by a
whirl of successive sights on the retina of the
eye. This is particularly the case when the
objects of interest are of so many different kinds
as they are in England. To furnish such a frame-
work is the limited aim of this paper, which is
an expansion of a lecture delivered to friends.
The voyage to England is now easy enough,
barring that curious little malady which still
defies medical science to trace its cause and is so
capricious in its range, often taking the strong
and leaving the weak. There is nothing to be
said about the voyage. Only, as we career over
those wild waters in a vast floating hotel at tho
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rate of five hundred miles a day, let us pay a
tribute to the brave hearts which first crossed
them in mere boats without charts or science of
navigation. In the marvellous strides which of
late years humanity has taken, nothing is more
marvellous or more momentous than the unifi-
cation of the world by the extinction of distance.
Already we have made one harvest we are fast
:
making one mind and one heait for the world.
As an old country, England perhaps is natur-
ally regarded first from the historical point of
view, and especially by us of whose history she
is the scene, whose monuments and the graves of
whose ancestors she holds. It is an advantage
which Canadians have over Americans that they
have not broken with their history and cast off
the influences, at once exalting and sobering,
which the record of a long and grand foretime
exerts upon the mind of a community. An
American has no history before the Revolution,
which took place at the end of the last centur}^
In his parlance, " Revolutionary " denotes that
which is most ancient : it is to the American the
equivalent for "Norman." He says that the
" Revolutionary " so and so was liis ancestor, as
an English nobleman wo'.ld say that his ances-
tors came in with the Concjuust.
Looking at the suhject historicjilly, we have
the England of the ancient Britons, Roman Eng-
land, Saxon England, the England of the Middle
Ages, the England of the Tudors, the England of
the Stuarts, the England of Anne anu the
Georges, all represented by their monuments. Of
the primitive habits of the Britons we have
monuments in hut-circles of British villages still
to be seen on P^xmoor, where the wild stag finds
es of
a shelter, and on wolds and downs, near Whitby
ntage
or Marlborough, where the traces of the primeval
they
world have not yet been effaced by the plough.
St off
Of their wild tribal wars we have monuments in
ring,
the numerous earthworks, once forts or places of
jtinie
An refuge for the tribe, which crown many a hill
and of which perhaps the largest and most strik-
ition,
ing is the triple rampart of ''Maiden Castle'' on a
iury.
id) near Dorchester. Of their dark and ])lopdy
that '
superstition and of the blind submissiveness to
the
priestly power still characteristic of the race, we
the