Author: C. R. L. Fletcher

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Published: 2017-05-19

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780259958666

Excerpt from The Germans: I, Their Empire, How They Have Made ItNot only their newspapers but also their schools and universities are wholly in the hands of their. Govern ment; all professors and schoolmasters are salaried State-agents; and all know that their promotion, and even the retention of the places they hold, depend on their teaching and preaching exactly what the Govern ment wishes. I can't speak for their priests or other ministers of religion, but. So far as I know, in the Protestant parts of Germany no one listens to them or goes to their churches, and not many well-educated people do so in the Catholic parts. But the average Gtcman believes in culture, and soaks himself in it t-o a far higher degree than the average Englishman. I have sometimes thought that the German gets his culture a little too cheap; for it is better that the highest things should come to us after some effort made by our selves than that we should be spoon-fed with them by the State.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.