rhine-netherlandish

Updated: July 23, 2026

The best elements of the French people lie in the western portion of what must become the greatest urban region of the Old World, the Rhine-Netherlandish region; the interests of North Italy draw that region away from the Italy of Rome and the South towards the Swiss and South Germany, and the Spanish and Portuguese speaking halfbreeds of South America have not only their own coalescences to arrange, but they lie already under the political tutelage of the United States.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - Anticipations : Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought