Excerpt from The Origin, Progress, and Present Condition of the Fine Arts in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1 of 2Having disposed of that question, the next object was to demonstrate, from authentic records, that the germs of art existed in the British isles at a period long antecedent to the Roman visitation and that their development, with that of civilization gene rally, was severely checked, first by the Roman in vaders, then by the Saxons and Danes, and for a time by the Norman Conquest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.