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If it is maintained that the emigration of Germans to America is an advantage, that is a piece of folly. What has Germany gained from the fact that thousands of her best sons, who could not find a livelihood at home, have turned their backs on the fatherland ? They are lost to it for ever. If the emigrant himself is perhaps still united by certain natural ties to his home, his children, as a rule, but in any case his grand- children, are Germans no more ; for the German learns only too easily t...o renounce his fatherland. And indeed 4] THE RISE AND FALL OF STATES 43 in America they are in no position to maintain their nationality permanently. Just as certainly as the Huguenots, when they immigrated into the march of Brandenburg, were on the average more cultivated than the Brandenburgers and were yet obliged to lose their nationality amid the multitude of the old inhabitants, in like manner was this the case with the Germans in America. Almost a third of the population of North America is of German origin.
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