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Photo by A. W. Cutler 

 ANCIKNT CLOCK OVERHANGING THE^ HIGH ROAD AT ABINGliR HAMMER, SURREY 



The little man strikes the bell with his hammer at the hour. The clock is of great 

 interest to pedestrians and automobilists as they pass beneath. "At the close of the thirteenth 

 century the consciousness in the people of any difference in ancestry had entirely disap- 

 peared. They were no longer Normans, Saxons, Danes; they were all English. This racial 

 unity, of which the English people became conscious about 1307, did not appear in other 

 nations of Europe for centuries" (see text, page 396). 



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