Excerpt from Older England: Illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon Antiquities in the British Museum in a Course of Six Lectures
The following Lectures were delivered, by the kind permission of the Officers of the British Museum, to a private audience, necessarily a small one on account of the size of the Anglo-Saxon room, but they were so warmly received by those who honoured me with their presence on the occasion of their delivery, that I have been led to repeat them as Lectures, and to publish them in the form of a hook.
For many years past I have been engaged in work which has rendered some degree of philological research indispensable, and in the course of my experience in many parts of the globe I found most civilized nations convinced of the great importance of first studying their own language, history, and development and then those of other lands. England alone, with all her wealth of literature, and with the most interesting of all Teutonic forms of speech, was lamentably behind the rest, choosing to draw her supplies of mythological, linguistic, and historic teachings from a source upon which she had no claim, in the first place, and which was ludicrously ill-suited to her requirements, tastes, and feelings, in the next.
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