Germania Contra Mundum (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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It is submitted, moreover, that in this special case the reiteration of facts and opinions which are generally accepted, and even, with due acknowledgment, the piracy of the Views of others, is very pardonable. The English-speaking race are tenacious of ideas when they have once been acquired, but, especially when they reside not on the Western but on the Eastern shores of the Atlantic, they are a slow-moving and slow-thinking people. They are conservative in the sense that it requires a prodigious effort to make them change their habits of thought or modify any acquired and deeply rooted Opinions. They are far less quick witted and versatile than Celts or Latins; Goethe's.

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