Social and commercial aims and aspirations in Sweden, Norway
and Denmark, independent as they are and probably always will be,
still show a decided trend to Central Germanic cohesion. The whole of
Europe is roughly divided into three dominant races--the Teutonic, the
Latin and the Slavish. The Teutonic has Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and
Norse subdivisions. The Latin, Gallic, has the French, Italian and
Spanish nations; and the Slavonic comprises the Slavs and Romanic
races with their innumerable subdivisions such as Moscovite, Chech,
Pole, Croat, Serb, Bulgar, Bojar, etc. These three groups are
distinctly different in habits, thoughts, manners and ambitions.
Through race and religion they are also deeply antagonistic by reason
of its higher commercial development (I do not say education, and art,
music or literature, for there your Latin or Slav excels), the
Teutonic races have outstripped the other two. Commercialism means
consolidation and concentration and since the Napoleonic wars the
Germanic races--at the beginning slowly but within the last
twenty-five years rapidly--have drawn together at an astonishing pace.
In countries such as Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Switzerland, each
possessing their own petty machinery of expensive government; existent
only through the mutual jealousies of their bigger neighbors, there
has grown up a decidedly incorporating spirit.
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