The world: historical and actual . N following the ordinarycourse of history the proud-est claims of Germany tolonorable distinction hard-ly attracted attention, be-ing entirely disconnectedfrom political or militaryaffairs. In all other coun-tries the scholar in politics has beena very considerable personage ; but In-tellectual Germany may be said to haveconstituted a world by itself, sublimelyindifferent to and independent of thefortunes of state. The Aborigines of Germany, saysTaylor, had their bards,. their battle-songs and their sacrificial hymns whenthey first became known to the Ro-mans
The world: historical and actual . N following the ordinarycourse of history the proud-est claims of Germany tolonorable distinction hard-ly attracted attention, be-ing entirely disconnectedfrom political or militaryaffairs. In all other coun-tries the scholar in politics has beena very considerable personage ; but In-tellectual Germany may be said to haveconstituted a world by itself, sublimelyindifferent to and independent of thefortunes of state. The Aborigines of Germany, saysTaylor, had their bards,. their battle-songs and their sacrificial hymns whenthey first became known to the Ro-mans. Charlemagne gathered those crude be-ginnings of literature, so far as possible, into alibrary which his imbecile and superstitious son, Lud-wig the Pious, committed to the flames. In theNibelungenlied we have a no less crude attempt atpoetical composition. That barbaric epic resembledHomer only as the jagged rock resembles the pol-ished statue. Poor in itself, it led to nothing bet-
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