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males of this number at 128,120,000, of which 

 10,678,000 are between twenty and thirty-three. 

 Reckoning one-third of these as incapable of service, 

 7,118,000 would remain, more than half of which 

 number are actually enrolled. The labor of a man 

 for a year is worth, on an average, 60 thalers. Thus 

 the withdrawal of 400,000 young men from labor is 

 an actual loss of 240,000,000 thalers per annum. The 

 annual expenditure of the European States upon their 

 land and sea forces and fortifications, he says, is, in 

 ordinary times, something over 541,188,000 thalers ; 

 which, added to the loss of 240,000,000 in labor, 

 amounts to 881,000,000, or a sum equal to the value 

 of the annual product of all the mines in Europe. 

 The whole of this expenditure, during thirty years of 

 peace, has been 16,230,000,000 thalers. One third 

 of this sum would have constructed 15,028 miles of 

 railway, or from thirteen to fourteen times as many as 

 are now completed in Germany. 



A French paper publishes a statement of loss 

 of life and the cost of wars of Europe in 1849, 

 remarking that the calculation is below the cost, and 

 that it does not include the Schleswig war, which was 

 both bloody and expensive, but concerning which 

 there is insufficient data to estimate correctly. The 

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