William the Conqueror

Excerpt from William the Conqueror

Line, even among the conquering kings and their imme diate instruments, their work never takes the shape of the rooting up Of the earlier institutions of the land. Those institutions are modified, sometimes silently by the mere growth Of events, sometimes formally and Of set purpose. Old institutions get new names; new institutions are set up alongside of them. But the Old ones are never swept away; they sometimes die out; they are never abolished. This comes largely of the absorbing and assimilating power Of the island world. But it comes no less of personal character and personal circumstances, and pro-eminently of the personal character of the Nor man Conqueror and of the circumstances in which he found himself.

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