people than the corresponding class of Germans, In England, I was 

 often distressed by displays of snobbishness and philistinism. Lord 

 Palmerston's sneer that Prussia was "a land of damned professors" still 

 expressed the sentiments of large sections of English society, sentiments 

 that were dearly paid for in the war, which taught so many hard 

 lessons. 



In Germany I encountered no snobbishness at all and but little 

 philistinism, for learning, science and art were held in sincere respect 

 by all classes of people, I fancy that that was what Marion Crawford 

 meant, when he declared that Germany was a more civilised country 

 than England. After I had taken my degree, Fraulein Gretchen laugh- 

 ingly, but seriously, told my Mother that my value in the matrimonial 

 market had risen greatly and that I was now eligible to marry into any 

 wealthy family, a point of view which the average businessman of Eng- 

 land or America would hardly comprehend. 



Down to 1912, I went back to England and Germany every few 

 years and noted the remarkable changes that went on in the latter: 

 the great industrial development, the immense increase in wealth and 

 in national feeling and the steadily rising hostility to England. No secret 

 was made of the intention to attack England, when the time should 

 be ripe and this was, no doubt, well known to successive British gov- 

 ernments. It was partly blundering statesmanship, partly overconfi- 

 dence that made Germany take on all her enemies together, instead 

 of following Bismarck's method of overcoming them in detail. 



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