Excerpt from A Short History of the English People, Vol. 1

The histories of the nations, must remain as one of the most characteristic products of our English life, and is in some sort the very expression of the people among whom it was conceived and for whom it was written. With its roots sunk deep in our English soil, made of the very substance of our English life, its whole character determined by the special conditions of our Eng lish society, it has taken the very impress of the temper and qualities which have given to the struggle of this people for their national liberties its peculiar spirit and form. Nor would it be easy to measure the in¿uence which the book has actually exerted in this generation, both in giving a new direction and method to historical study, and in giving to the people a fuller conscious ness of what our Commonwealth imports. Read by hundreds of thousands of Englishmen, it has not passed through their hands.

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