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XXX RELATION OF ALFRED TO ST. AUGUSTINE It was the blending of these two great streams - Latin Christianity as seen in Augustine of the fifth century, and the stalwart Saxon character as seen in Alfred of the ninth century - that caused a tide of influence to set in which reaches us over the tract of a thousand years, and is now, we believe, gathering strength for a new and mightier period of activity.