t in the people, and the Pomeranian sees Antichrist in the Pope as
clearly as the Tyrolese sees him in Doctor Luther; while in Middle
Germany the confessions are mingled, they exist peaceably side by side in
very narrow space, and tolerance or indifference has spread itself widely
even in the popular mind. And the analogy, or rather the causal relation
between the physical geography of the three regions and the development
of the population goes still further:

"For," observes Riehl, "the striking connection which has been
pointed out between the local geological formations in Germany and
the revolutionary disposition of the people has more than a
metaphorical significance. Where the primeval physical revolutions
of the globe have been the wildest in their effects, and the most
multiform strata have been tossed together or thrown one upon the
other, it is a very intelligible consequence that on a land surface
thus broken up, the population should sooner develop itself into
small communities, and that the more intense life generated in these
smaller communities should become the most favorable nidus for the
reception of modern culture, and with this a susceptibility for its
revolutionary ideas; while a people settled in a region where its
groups are spread over a large space will persist much more
obstinately in the retention of its original character. The people
of Middle Germany have none of that exclusive one-sidedness which
determines the peculiar genius of great national groups, just as this
one-sidedness or uniformity is wanting to the geological and
geographical character of their land."

This ethnographical outline Riehl fills up with special and typical
descriptions, and then makes it the starting-point for a criticism of the
actual political condition of Germany. The volume is fall of vivid
pictures, as well as penetrating glances into the maladies and tendencies
of modern society. It would be fascinating as literature if it were not
important for its facts and philosophy. But we can only commend it to
our readers, and pass on to the volume entitled "Die Burgerliche
Gesellschaft," from which we have drawn our sketch of the German
peasantry. Here Riehl gives us a series of studies in that natural
history of the people which he regards as the proper basis of social
policy. He holds that, in European society, there are _three natural