Supplemental Notes to the View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages
Supplemental Notes to the View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages
Henry Hallam
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IER INHABITANTS. 81 with scarcely any infusion of Latin ? Why is it that in- numerable Arabic words, and even some Arabic sounds of letters, are found in the Castilian language, the language of a people foreign and hostile, while scarcely a trace is left of the Visigothic tongue, that of their fathers ; so that for one word, it is said, of Teutonic origin remaining" in Spain, there are ten in Italy, and a hundred in France ? * If we were to take Sismondi literally, the barbarians must have foun...d nothing in Gaul but a Roman or Romanized aristocracy, surrounded by slaves ; and these as much im- ported, or the offspring of importation, as the Negroes in America. This is rather a humiliating origin, an iUad quod dicer e nolo^ for the French nation. For it is the French nation that is descended from the inhabitants of Gaul at the epoch of the barbarian conquest. We have, however, a strong- ethnographical argument against this imaginary depo})ulation, in the national charac- teristics of the French.
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