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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Germany and the Germans, by Price Collier This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View (1913) Author: Price Collier Release Date: August 12, 2006 [EBook #19036] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMANY AND THE GERMANS *** Produced by Jeffrey Kraus-yao GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW GERMANY AND THE GERMANS FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW BY PRICE COLLIER CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK 1913 Copyright, 1913, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published May, 1913 To MY WIFE KATHARINE whose deserving far outstrips my giving CONTENTS CHAPTER INTRODUCTION I. THE CRADLE OF MODERN GERMANY II. FREDERICK THE GREAT TO BISMARCK III. THE INDISCREET IV. GERMAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE PRESS V. BERLIN VI. "A LAND OF DAMNED PROFESSORS" VII. THE DISTAFF SIDE VIII. "OHNE ARMEE KEIN DEUTSCHLAND" IX. GERMAN PROBLEMS X. "FROM ENVY, HATRED, AND MALICE" XI. CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION The first printed suggestion that America should be called America came from a German. Martin Waldseemueller, of Freiburg, in his Cosmographiae Introductio, published in 1507, wrote: "I do not see why any one may justly forbid it to be named after Americus, its discoverer, a man of sagacious mind, Amerige, that is the land of Americus or America, since both Europe and Asia derived their names from women." The first complete ship-load of Germans left Gravesend July the 24th, 1683, and arrived in Philadelphia October the 6th, 1683. They settled in Germantown, or, as it was then called, on account of the poverty of the settlers, Armentown. Up to within the last few years the majority of our settlers have been Teutonic in blood and Protestant in religion. The English, Dutch, Swedes, Germans, Scotch-Irish, who settled in America, were all, less than two thousand years ago, one Germanic race from the country surrounding the North Sea. Since 1820 more than 5,200,000 Germans have settled in America. This immigration of Germans has practically ceased, and it is a serious loss to Am
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