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Roman and the Teuton by Charles Kingsley
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Jews and the rich churchmen (who are all mixed up in financial
operations with Baron Rothschild) has just commanded all Dissenters
to leave the metropolis within three days, under pain of death.

I must add yet one more feature to this fearful, but accurate
picture, and say how, a few generations forward, an even uglier thing
would be seen. The English aristocracy would have been absorbed by
foreign adventurers. The grandchildren of these slaves and
mercenaries would be holding the highest offices in the state and the
army, naming themselves after the masters who had freed them, or
disguising their barbarian names by English endings. The De Fung-
Chowvilles would be Dukes, the Little-grizzly-bear-Joe-Smiths Earls,
and the Fitz-Stanleysons, descended from a king of the gipsies who
enlisted to avoid transportation, and in due time became Commander-
in-Chief, would rule at Knowsley in place of the Earl of Derby,
having inherited the same by the summary process of assassination.
Beggars on horseback, only too literally; married, most of them, to
Englishwomen of the highest rank; but looking on England merely as a
prey; without patriotism, without principle; they would destroy the
old aristocracy by legal murders, grind the people, fight against
their yet barbarian cousins outside, as long as they were in luck:
but the moment the luck turned against them, would call in those
barbarian cousins to help them, and invade England every ten years
with heathen hordes, armed no more with tulwar and matchlock, but
with Enfield rifle and Whitworth cannon. And that, it must be
agreed, would be about the last phase of the British empire. If you
will look through the names which figure in the high places of the
Roman empire, during the fourth and fifth centuries, you will see how
few of them are really Roman. If you will try to investigate, not
their genealogies--for they have none--not a grandfather among them--
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