[Frontispiece: Magna Charta, 1215: King John submits to the Barons, and signs the Great Charter of British Liberties.] Will the readers of this little work please bear in mind the difficulties which must attend the painting of a very large picture, with multitudinous characters and details, upon a very small canvas! This book is mainly an attempt to trace to their sources some of the currents which enter into the life of Great Britain to-day, and to indicate the starting-points of some among the various threads--legislative, judicial, social, etc.--which are gathered into the imposing strand of English civilization in this closing nineteenth century.…
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