. 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. GERMAN PEASANT OF OLDENBURG. which takes the majority of healthy youths at the time of most vigorousmanhood, when aptitudes are acquired and when they couldBurden of - - — r. .-, ?• i i.™ j-i,,^-.^-. ii-ifnV tJemSta^best add to the wealth of the nation, and converts them intosystem, ^y^r.^j^achines. The military men and the professors mclude*between them the best available ta
. 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. GERMAN PEASANT OF OLDENBURG. which takes the majority of healthy youths at the time of most vigorousmanhood, when aptitudes are acquired and when they couldBurden of - - — r. .-, ?• i i.™ j-i,,^-.^-. ii-ifnV tJemSta^best add to the wealth of the nation, and converts them intosystem, ^y^r.^j^achines. The military men and the professors mclude*between them the best available talent of the country, while only thesurplus is left for manufactures and agriculture mn^m^mrtr^—^^-! •- /^/?t?7/w<^^^^^^^. ii6 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. We are apt to associate a phlegmatic temperament, a stolid demeanour, with the German race; but this does them scant justice. The German They may be stolid, absorbed in absorbing their tobacco till temperament, roused by something more exciting. But they can become as excited, as vivacious, as eager as Frenchmen, though without their suppleness of movement, their fertility of gesticulation. The student has a very regrettable tendency to fight duels on the smallest provocation. Fortunately his weapon is not the pistol, and his sword, guarded by a large basket hilt, although it confers many scars, and often deprives the duellist of a portion of nose or ear, seldom causes death, for pads protect the throat, right arm, and the whole left side of the body to the knee. It cannot be said that the German student is in the smallest degreecomparable to our stalwart University men. As Mr. Julian HawthorneTiieGerman says in his Saxon Studies, They are not a physical
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