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These were men of our race, bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh: and when Egbert, one thou- sand and eighty-three years ago, be- came King of all England, "The Em- pire" became a possibility, for then its foundations were laid.

The Saxon rule continued : and a feeling of nationality had become per- ceptible helped on as it was by strug- gle for life with the invading Dane and he indeed was master of Eng- land for a brief space of time when William the Norman slew Kinsr Har- old at Senlac.

And the Saxon line of these monarchs went out in blood.

But like the Danes, the Normans were of the same stock as the Sax- ons themselves; and it was not long before Saxon and Norman lived to- gether in amity, if not in love and the Norman became proud of his island-home.

The idea of "The Em- pire" was now embryonic "The Em- pire" became more and more the ob- ject toward which all in great part, indeed, unconsciously pressed on.