Anglo-Saxon dwellings : a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the exhibition, August 2nd, 1884 / by Professor Hodgetts.

  • Hodgetts (Professor)
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1884
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Credit: Anglo-Saxon dwellings : a lecture delivered in the lecture room of the exhibition, August 2nd, 1884 / by Professor Hodgetts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LONDON, 1884. Saturday, August 2nd, 1884. A LECTURE ON ANGLO-SAXON DWELLINGS. By Professor Hodgetts. The Chair was occupied by Dr. ZERFFL In every civilised nation except our own there seems some kind of national pride which tends to elevate in men’s minds the respect and affection which we owe to our fatherland and mother-tongue. With us, unfortunately, our patriotism is generally a cloak for ignorance. An Englishman is asked whether he speaks any given language he will say “ No—English is the grandest language in the world, ergo, why should he learn another ? ” Any other man of any other nation uttering this sentiment would be stigmatized by that same Englishman as an ignorant conceited person who did not know English. And yet, what Englishman knows English? The language of his ancestors is a sealed book to him. And more than this— what does he know of the manners, dress, habits, language, modes of thought, ways of life, arts and sciences of our own race before the wretched fad set in of worshipping the “ lady in the Revelation,” as I have heard Rome called by those who identify her with Babylon? And now I want to tell you something about Early English Houses, and [l. 40.] B 2