Throughout Germany it is not only in the country districts and among the uneducated that dialects are maintained.

Every province has practically its own language, of which it is proud and retentive.

An educated Bavarian will admit to you that, academically speaking, the North German is more correct; but he will continue to speak South German and to teach it to his children.
In the course of the century, I am inclined to think that Germany will solve her difficulty in this respect by speaking English.

Every boy and girl in Germany, above the peasant class, speaks English.

Were English pronunciation less arbitrary, there is not the slightest doubt but that in the course of a very few years, comparatively speaking, it would become the language of the world.