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Show ALL IN REALITY TEUTONS Great Nation of the Preeent Got Their Ideal From Qermanle Source. Teutonic civilization crossed the channel and laid tho foundation of England. There it has been preserved in a purer state than in any other part of the globe, except in Scandinavia. The free Ideals which England baa' spread broadcast throughout tbo world are her heritage from the Saxon freemen free-men who founded a new Germany la Britain, while military despot did violence vio-lence to German ideal In central Europe. There is no civilization worthy the name except Teutonlo civilization. It fills Europe and America; it dominates Asia and Africa. Its seat is in London and Paris, and Rome and Brussels, and Copenhagen and Stockholm, and Now York and Philadelphia, no less than In Berlin and Vienna. Uecauso wo Inherit tho blood 'of the Saxons or tho Normans or tho Franks or the Lougobnrds wo aro all Germans; Ger-mans; but moro especially are wo Germans Ger-mans because our most priceless heritage herit-age is tho free ideals of thoso freo men. It is idle, therefore, to talk of prejudice preju-dice against Germans In this conflict And It is equally futllo to arguo that Teutonlo civilization is at stake in a war in which tho most potent factors on either side nro themselves tho ripest nroduct of that civilization watered jy the most ancient German blood. Philadelphia North American. |