. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. arger than thoseof France, and rivaling the English. After 1870, there was a perfect mania inGermany for forming stock companies, followed, naturally, by a collapse of theboom, and a temporary set-back, but marking a genuine advance of theGermans as an industrial nation. Of recent years German manufacturers havebeen thrusting more and more into the markets of the world, and thereby earningthe wrath of the English, who had formerly almost a monopoly of most manu-factured articles of commerce. The twentieth century will decide whe
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. arger than thoseof France, and rivaling the English. After 1870, there was a perfect mania inGermany for forming stock companies, followed, naturally, by a collapse of theboom, and a temporary set-back, but marking a genuine advance of theGermans as an industrial nation. Of recent years German manufacturers havebeen thrusting more and more into the markets of the world, and thereby earningthe wrath of the English, who had formerly almost a monopoly of most manu-factured articles of commerce. The twentieth century will decide whetherGermany can distance England as the first commercial and industrial nation ofEurope, or whether both countries must succumb to the slowly awakeningeconomic power of the huge empire of Russia. 1 Even to cross the British Channel with the old packets might involve adelay of several days, if the winds were contrary and tied up the shipping. Forpractical purposes, Spain was more remote from England in 1789 than SouthAmerica is to-day. THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY 555. WHEELWRIGHTS IN THE DAYS OF THE STAGE-COACH (After a contemporary etching by Duplessis-Bertaux) Paris, and Paris within twenty-two hours of Vienna. The oldisolation — so conducive to local prejudice as well as to sheerignorance — is brok-en down, and humanbrotherhood and civ-ilization are incalcu-lably the gainers. 322. The new con-sciousness of nation-ality. But while theold isolation of igno-rance is ending, thesense of patriotismbased on loyalty toa local fatherland isstill strong. The bar-riers of language, race, and religion are still mighty, as anyAmerican traveler can testify who has, for instance, passedsuddenly from Germany to France. In the nineteenth centurythe struggles of various peoples to secure firm, united, nationalgovernments (notably in Germany and Italy) seemed tokindle patriotism to a white heat. But this patriotism has notbeen of the petty, ignoble kind; in the hot fires of a commonsacrifice mu
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