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[[File:King Alfred the Great statue, Wantage, Oxfordshire.jpg|thumb|right|Remember what [[punishments]] befell us in this [[world]] when we ourselves did not cherish [[learning]] nor transmit it to other men.]]

 

** '''Very often it has come to my [[mind]] what men of [[learning]] there were formerly throughout England, both in religious and secular orders; and how there were happy times then throughout England'''; and how the kings, who had [[authority]] over this people, obeyed [[God]] and his messengers; and how they not only maintained their [[peace]], [[morality]] and authority at home but also extended their territory outside; and how they succeeded both in warfare and in [[wisdom]]; and also how eager were the religious orders both in teaching and in learning as well as in all the holy services which it was their duty to perform for God; and how people from abroad sought wisdom and instruction in this country; '''and how nowadays, if we wished to acquire these things, we would have to seek them outside.'''

** p. 124