But maybe his method has the advantage of producing a continuous supply of good governors; it would certainly seem so.
As a trader, I am inclined to think the German will, unless his temperament considerably change, remain always a long way behind his Anglo-Saxon competitor; and this by reason of his virtues.

To him life is something more important than a mere race for wealth.

A country that closes its banks and post-offices for two hours in the middle of the day, while it goes home and enjoys a comfortable meal in the bosom of its family, with, perhaps, forty winks by way of dessert, cannot hope, and possibly has no wish, to compete with a people that takes its meals standing, and sleeps with a telephone over its bed.

In Germany there is not, at all events as yet, sufficient distinction between the classes to make the struggle for position the life and death affair it is in England.

Beyond the landed aristocracy, whose boundaries are impregnable, grade hardly counts.