Germanic peoples

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Nevertheless, it is in this obscure age that the foundations of Normandy were laid.

First of all, the population, Gallo-Roman at bottom, receiving a Germanic admixture of Saxons and Franks long before the coming of the Northmen, but still predominantly non-Germanic in its racial type.

Next, language, determined by the process of Romanization and persisting as a Romance speech in spite of Saxon and Frank and Northmen until in the earliest monuments of the 11th century we can recognize the beginnings of modern French.

Then law, the Frankish law, which the Northmen were to absorb, perpetrate, and carry to England.

The colonization of Normandy was of course only a small part of the work of this heroic age of Scandinavian expansion.

The great emigration from the North in the 9th and 10th centuries has been explained in part by the growth of centralized government and the consequent departure of the independent, the turbulent, and the untamed for new fields of adventure, but its chief cause was doubtless that which lies back of colonizing movements in all ages, the growth of population and the need of more room.

Five centuries earlier this land hunger had pushed the Germanic tribes across the Rhine and Danube and produced the great wandering of the peoples which destroyed the Roman Empire, and the Viking raids were simply a later aspect of this same Völkerwanderung, retarded by the outlying position of the Scandinavian lands and by the greater difficulty of migration by sea.

For unlike the Goths, who swept across the map of Europe in vast curves of marching men, or the Franks, who moved forward by slow stages of gradual settlement in their occupation of Roman Gaul, The Scandinavian invaders were men of the sea and migrated in ships.

Similarly, you may call England perfidious as a sort of historical summary, and declare your private belief that Mr. Asquith was vowed from infancy to the ruin of the German Empire, a hannibal and hater of the eagles but when all is said it is nonsense to call a man perfidious because he keeps his promise it is absurd to complain of the sudden treachery of a business man in turning up punctually to his appointment or the unfair shock given to a creditor by the debtor paying his debts lastly there is an attitude not unknown in the crisis against which i should particularly like to protest i should address my protest especially to those lovers and pursuers of peace who very short-sightedly have occasionally adopted it i mean the attitude which is impatient of these preliminary details about who did this or that and whether it was right or wrong they are satisfied with saying that an enormous calamity called war has been begun by some or all of us and should be ended by some or all of us to these people this preliminary chapter about the precise happenings must appear not only dry and it must of necessity be the driest part of the task but essentially needless and barren i wish to tell these people that they are wrong that they are wrong upon all principles of human justice and historic continuity but that they are specially and supremely wrong upon their own principles of arbitration and international peace these sincere and high-minded peace-lovers are always telling us that citizens no longer settle their quarrels by private violence and that nations should no longer settle theirs by public violence they are always telling us that we no longer fight duels and need no longer wage wars In short, they perpetually base their peace proposals on the fact that an ordinary citizen no longer avenges himself with an axe.

But how is he prevented from revenging himself with an axe? If he hits his neighbor on the head with a kitchen chopper, what do we do? do we all join hands like children playing mulberry bush and say we are all responsible for this but let us hope it will not spread let us hope for the happy day when he shall leave off chopping at the man's head and when nobody shall ever chop anything for ever and ever do we say let bygones be bygones why go back to all the dull details with which the business began who can tell with what sinister motives the man was standing there within reach of the hatchet we do not we keep the peace in private life by asking for the facts of provocation and the proper object of punishment we do go into the dull details we do inquire into the origins we do emphatically inquire who it was that hit first in short we do what i have done very briefly in this place given this it is indeed true that behind these facts there are truths truths of a terrible of a spiritual sort in mere fact the Germanic power has been wrong about Serbia, wrong about Russia, wrong about Belgium, wrong about England, wrong about Italy.

But there was a reason for it being wrong everywhere, and of that root reason, which has moved half the world against it, I shall speak later.

For that is something too omnipresent to be proved, too indisputable to be helped by detail.

Sometimes that Germany need not keep faith with anybody and anything.

Sometimes that we alone among European peoples are almost entitled to be Germans.

Sometimes that, beside us, Russians and Frenchmen almost rise to a Germanic loveliness of character.

But through all there is, hazy but not hypocritical, this sense of some common Teutonism.

Footnote.

Hegel's division is, one, the Oriental; two, A, the Greek; B, the Roman; and three, the Germanic worlds.

End of footnote.

But the interesting point is that it is based on anthropological considerations in which climate and geography are taken into account, and notwithstanding the crudeness of the whole exposition and the intrusion of astrological arguments, it is a new step in the study of universal history.

In the second place, Hegel ignores the primitive prehistoric ages of man and sets the beginning of his development in the fully grown civilization of China.

He conceives the spirit as continually moving from one nation to another in order to realize the successive stages of its self-consciousness.

From China to India, from India to the kingdoms of Western Asia, then from the Orient to Greece, then to Rome, and finally to the Germanic world.

In the East, men knew only that one is free.

Somewhat bizarrely, for all that we know about Druids, only one Druid in the classical record has a name.

Divisiacus of the Aedui traveled to Rome in the early 60s BC to beg the Senate for help against Germanic invaders, and Cicero counted him as a friend.

Years later, Cicero's brother Quintus, in a dialogue about divination, confirmed that Cicero knew the man personally.

He claimed knowledge of what the Greeks called the study of nature, and that he predicted the future partly through augury and partly by reasoning.

a different world.

and the other point to mention there perhaps is that these gardens here you could um term them if you will as the forerunner for hospitals because leading up to this if you think of much of europe um is very much a country of warring tribes i mean the romans have left Suddenly you've got Vikings, you've got Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes, all this warring going on.

And then suddenly there's a place created to actually care for people and to look after people.

So it was quite a turning point.

Mm-hmm.

Of Germanic-

Slightly Germanic accent.

Yeah.

Okay.

And by empire, I'm simply speaking of the Holy Roman Empire, the Germanic states to the north of Italy, which bled down over the Alps.

That's the sort of geographic parameter I'm talking about here.

The terms Guelph and Ghibelline have Germanic origins.

The former developed from the house of Welf.

a dynasty of Bavarian dukes who fought for the imperial throne throughout the later Middle Ages.