Identifier: moderncontempora01scha (find matches)
Title: Modern and contemporary European history (1815-1921)
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Schapiro, J. Salwyn (Jacob Salwyn), 1879-1973 Shotwell, James Thomson, 1874-1965, ed
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of nationalism. A people divided in their alle-giance, as were the Germans, meant a people divided intheir energies. They exhausted themselves in fratricidalstrife and petty quarrels, with the result that they had noenergy left to struggle for democracy. The narrow atmos-phere of the little Germanies cramped their souls andstarved their national spirit. In despair they took to phil-osophy. For in the wide realm of metaphysics the Germanspirit could soar freely and majestically, knowing neitherthe constraint of boundaries nor the repression of despots.It was then a common jest that whereas France ruled theland and England the sea, Germany ruled the clouds.Many Germans affected to despise the nationalism towhich they could not attain, and they became cosmopoli-tans, calling themselves citizens of the world. Thelove of country, declared the dramatist, Lessing, is asentiment which I do not understand. It is, as it seemsto me, at best a heroic infirmity which I am most happyin not sharing.
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