Agreeing with Peter Ackroyd

The following statements captured my mind

" Linguistic change is the principal arbiter of imaginative transition"

"Antiquarianism, in England, has always been compounded by a vision of Englishness itself; it is not a question of nationalism, which is often mistakenly introduced as an explanation or an easy device, but rather of the sentiment that in the relics of the past there is some inkling of what England is really like"

In my view these are the very pillars on which the English legal tradition could be framed with the consistency of art.