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"How thoroughly German," thought I; "these people are the Turks of Europe, stupified with tobacco and 'starkes bier. They have no thought for any thing but themselves, and their own immediate occupations."
The type is described in Schiller's Song of the Founding of the Bell: Denn, wo das strenge mit dem zarten, Wo mildes sich und starkes paarten, Da giebt es einen guten Klang. There is a tendency to apply the term "miraculous" to the career of every hero, and in a sense such description is, of course, true.
For farmers and struggling landowners, a Central Board, for the purchase of machines, was created, which also superintended the equitable distribution of orders among industrial firms. These figures are drawn from statistics published in July 1914. Cf. Dr. Karl Hildebrand, Ein starkes Volk.
With each of these proprietors in the first phase with 5,000,000 landowners separate arrangements were concluded. The Association employed for the purpose nearly three thousand commissioners and five hundred other officials, and the Credit Banks made advances on the quantities sold. Cf. Karl Hildebrand, Ein starkes Volk, p. 122.
"How thoroughly German," thought I; "these people are the Turks of Europe, stupified with tobacco and 'starkes bier. They have no thought for any thing but themselves, and their own immediate occupations."
About once every four days, or even oftener, a new edition of this work was issued. By the middle of December 1914 the eighty-fourth edition was in print." Karl Hildebrand, Ein starkes Volk, p. 108.
The Nieblung Lied tells of Siegfried's feats with bear, buffalo, elk, wolf, and deer: "Danach schlug er wieder einen Buffel und einen Elk Vier starkes Auer nieder und einen grimmen Schelk, So schnell trug ihn die Mahre, dasz ihm nichts entsprang; Hinden und Hirsche wurden viele sein Fang. ....... ein Waldthier furchterlich, Einen wilden Baren."
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