Germany

Définition et enjeux

Congrès international des orientalistes,  Transactions of the second session of the international Congress of Orientalists… (1876)

“ I am happy to believe that no country has more willingly discounted the German claims for such indebtedness than England, or has with more pleasure made a home welcome and acceptable to the distinguished linguistic philosophers who may honour another than the Fatherland, as a notable one has done this island, in choosing it for # continuous residence and field of research and instruction. But there is a mighty Empire to the east of Germany, whose services to ethnological science are perhaps less known and appreciated in England. ”
Source : Gallica

Congrès international des orientalistes,  Transactions of the second session of the international Congress of Orientalists… (1876)

“ Then followed a sudden reaction; and the natives themselves, on becoming more and more acquainted with European history and literature, began to feel the childishness of their claims, and to be almost ashamed of their own classics. This was a national misfortune. A people that cannot feel some pride in the past, in its history and literature, loses the mainstay of its national character. When Germany was in the very depth of its political degradation, it turned to its ancient literature, and drew hope for the future from the study of the past. ”
Source : Gallica

Historicus,  Les Conditions de la paix et les droits de l'Allemagne… (1871)

“ La plupart s'étaient créé une Allemagne à leur image et ne la connaissaient que par ses villes d'eaux et de jeux, Eins, Baden-Baden, Hombourg, avec leurs somptueux casinos, leurs faciles plaisirs, leurs moeurs licencieuses.—Pour les plus cultivés, les Allemands étaient un peuple de poètes et de penseurs, impuissant, désuni, dépourvu de sens politique. Il y avait une Saxe, une Bavière, une Autriche, il n'y avait pas d'Allemagne. ”
Source : Gallica

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