text:  And you mistrust information which discountenances itself by borrowing the magical robe of verse! Or you misdoubt this medley of our English blood which in the lapse of ages must as you deem have confounded upon the soil the confluent streams of primitively distinct superstitions! Or your suspicious inquisition rebels against this insular banishment of ours which sequestering us from the common mind of the world may as you augur have perverted into an excessive individuality of growth our mythological beliefs: Or--Southwards then! One good stride over salt water lands you amongst a people who from the old have kept THEMSELVES TO THEMSELVES; whose warm bold _thorough_-loyal hearts hereditarily believe after the love and reverence owed from the children's children to the fathers' fathers