Excerpt from The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Vol. 5: Its Causes and Its Results In the Chapter on language I would ask such of my readers as may be finished philologers to look at it, if they can, from the point of View of one with whom political history is a primary study, and philol'ogy one studied only as it illustrates the political history. No man can study political history worthily without learning a good deal about lan guage no man can study language worthily without learning a good deal about political history. Still the man with whom a subject is primary and the man with whom it is secondary look at it in quite different ways. With me the study of language is part of the study of history. A treatment of language which would be very inadequate for the purpose of a professed philologer may be all that is needed for my purpose. I only h0pe that professed philologers will find that what I have ventured to say on their subject is accurate as far as it goes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.