Story of the life of Alfred the Great, how at twenty-two he
inherited a land overrun by savage pirates, -a restless ignorant,
defenseless land, and how he fought the Danes and restored the
country to a condition of peace and safety. When he inherited his
kingdom at twenty-two, the king was not safe in his palace, the
priest in his church. There was little opportunity for agriculture;
laws were not executed; schools had disappeared, the very wish to
learn had disappeared; the whole land was rapidly sinking into
ignorance and barbarism, and was exhausted by its sickening dread
of the horrors that the next moment might bring. To restore a land
in such a condition to peace and quiet and safety and freedom from
fear of harm, to establish churches and schools, to make just laws,
and see to it that they were justly executed-a man might well have
been proud to have succeeded in doing any one of these things; and
for the man who brought about all these good results, no praise can
be too high. To him who, in the midst of all the fighting and the
weariness and the anxiety and the temptation and the
responsibility, lived a calm, simple, unselfish, blameless life, to
him of all the sovereigns of England who have served their country
well, may the title, "The Great," most justly be given.
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