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It was accomplished so thoroughly, says another 

 well-informed writer, that almost everything 

 previously included in the type of " German " 

 disappeared within a few decades. The alteration 

 which took place in the psychology of the German 

 peoples the writer describes to be a phenomenon so 

 vast and so powerful that it permanently influenced 

 the human mind, while it has been on such a scale 

 that there is nothing to compare with it in history. 1 

 The suddenness even more than the completeness 

 of the change is a fact to arrest attention even in 

 the least observant. Most private persons with 

 any considerable experience of Germany and the 

 German people will have been struck with this 

 feature. One of the closest friends of my youth 

 for many years was a retired captain of the German 

 navy, whose type of mind, ideas, and motives ap- 

 peared to me from practical contact with his sur- 

 roundings in his own country to be quite usual among 

 the educated classes in Germany in the days when 

 he grew to manhood. In the uprising genera- 

 tion of the German nation of sixty-five millions 

 there is probably not a single individual of this 

 type now in existence. The alteration was not 

 principally a change in individuals in relation to 



l Ct. F. M. Hueffer. When Blood is their Argument, Pts. II. 

 and III. 





