Identifier: worldsinhabitant00bett (find matches)
Title: The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Bettany, G. T. (George Thomas), 1850-1891
Subjects: Civilization Culture
Publisher: London Ward, Lock
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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SUABIAN PEASANT WOMAN. that he knows geography, military tactics, and languages, in a way veryunJike that of a drawing-room warrior, and makes his profes- Educationsion his practice, his h±e. He has simply gone into mihtary and driu. I I 114 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. matters with the same energy which our professional man or manu-facturer devotes to his business. He has practised what he protessed;there were many hke him to take his place if he fell, and the system hassucceeded. But at what an enormous cost! Germany groans under the terrible burden of h^r military system,
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