The Jew remains in the country, but becomes a citizen, and sometimes even a peasant-proprietor.

This phenomenon is manifesting itself also in other places where there is a concurrence of the German and Slavonic elements.
In Prussia, however, there is this peculiarity in addition, of which Freytag has made the most effective use--I mean the education of the Prussian people, not alone in the national schools, but also in the science of national defense, which this people of seventeen millions has in common with Sparta and with Rome.
It is well known that every Prussian not physically disqualified, of whatever rank he be, must become a soldier.

The volunteer serves in the line for one year, and without pay; other persons serve for two or three years.

Thereafter, all beyond the age of twenty-five are yearly called out as militia, and drilled for several weeks after harvest.

This enactment has been in force since 1813, and it is a well-known fact, brought prominently forward in the work before us, that, notwithstanding the immense sacrifice it requires, it is enthusiastically cherished by the nation as a school of manly discipline, and as exercising a most beneficial influence on all classes of society.