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For we never could have won the greatest
sea-power unless we had bred the greatest race of seamen. And we never
could have bred the greatest race of seamen unless we ourselves had
been mostly bred from those hardy Norsemen who were both the terror and
the glory of the sea.
Many thousands of years ago, when the brown and yellow peoples of the
Far South-East were still groping their way about their steamy Asian
rivers and hot shores, a race of great, strong, fair-haired seamen was
growing in the North. This Nordic race is the one from which most
English-speaking people come, the one whose blood runs in the veins of
most first-class seamen to the present day, and the one whose
descendants have built up more oversea dominions, past and present,
than have been built by all the other races, put together, since the
world began.
To the sturdy Nordic stock belonged all who became famous as Vikings,
Berserkers, and Hardy Norsemen, as well as all the Anglo-Saxons, Jutes,
Danes, and Normans, from whom came most of the people that made the
British Empire and the United States.


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