HEINE ON GERMANS
“ Their manners and customs are survivals from the age of the barbaric invasions, and they are governed partly by their Duces (prize_ cocks they style them), partly by their primitive code styled the ‘ Comment.’ It well deserves a place among the ‘ leges barbarorum.’
“The inhabitants of Gottingen may be roughly classified under the heads of student, professor, philistine, and, brute; but between these four estates there is no clearly marked distinction. The most important class are the brutes.”—A frankly expressed opinion of his compatriots by Heinrich Heine, the German Jewish-born poet, who died in 185 G.
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Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 3
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99HEINE ON GERMANS Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 3
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