The Germans: Double History Of A Nation

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Emil Grimm Ludwig. The Germans: Double History Of A Nation

THE GERMANS:

Foreword

Contents

Illustrations

PRELUDE BEFORE DAWN

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Book I. THE DREAM OF WORLD DOMINION. From Charlemagne to Gutenberg (800–1500)

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Book II. STRUGGLE FOR THE CREED. From Luther to Kepler (1500–1650)

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Book III. SCHISM OF STATE AND SPIRIT. From the Great Elector to Goethe (1650–1800)

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Book IV. WORLD–CITUENS AND NATIONALISTS. From Beethoven to Bismarck (1800–1890)

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Book V. DECLINE. From William II to Hitler (1890–1940)

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Index

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Double History of a Nation

BY EMIL LUDWIG

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But money flowed into Germany from the older countries, bringing interest and income from capital and power from its accumulation. In vain St. Thomas Aquinas declared all merchants who earned more than the barest necessities for themselves to be immoral, while another ecclesiastical teacher wrote the memorable sentence “that a merchant could hardly be without sin.” Ships and stagecoaches began to pick up the fragments of the world, torn and tattered since the great migrations. It soon developed that the Germans made excellent merchants.

Later proud commercial houses arose in Frankfort, Mayence and Cologne, importing silk and spices from the East, exporting metals and furs in exchange and growing into powerful centers during the Crusades and Roman expeditions.

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