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Chiyaley,
more developed than in most other races . Southern nations confounding liveliness of feeling with intensity , and nervous excitability with moral sensibility , have been deceived by the cool character of the Teutonic nations , and have accused them of indifference .
But the most superficial examination will show their deep sensibility—a fact proved hy their poetry . The Teutonic nations are less excitable than th e Celtic , the Sclavonian , and other races , but capable of deeper thought . Southern races have accomplished great things by" sudden effortsr ; the Teutonic have reserved their enterprise for vast plans , which have required centuries to carry into
effect . Tims they destroyed the Roman empire after a struggle of three centuries , and formed new kingdoms in Europe upon social principles which have maintained their vigour to the present day . The Normans became powerful wherever the sea permitted them to effect a landing . The Germans , after spreading their numbers over Western Europe , turned back to the East , then occupied by Sclavoiiians whom they conquered , and were thus ^ enabled to
civilise the east of Europe . Lastly , the English , by their colonies , have extended their language and influence over the whole surface of the habitable globe . Their dominions in the East and the West , as well as the empire rising in Australia , are the results of plans which imply more boldness of conception , more prudence in execution , and more reflection , than the conquests of Alexander the Great , or the ephemeral power of the first Napoleon .
It was this combination : of well considered plans , of untiring energy ^ and . of indomitable courage , that enabled these bands of knightly chivalry to withstand for nearly two centuries the attacks of hordes of Moslems ten times their number ; and we have parallel cases in modern history of the invincible energy of the same
Teutonic race . A century ago Olive , with but 900 British and 2 , 200 native troops , defeated and put to flight at Plassey the Nabob of Bengal with 70 , 000 men and fifty pieces of cannon ; and recent events in India furnish many more such instances of Anglo-Saxon power and determination .
A niodern writer has remarked that " There are two principal features in the story of the Teutonic Knights . The existence of the Order was secured , when its first object was lost with the Holy Land , by the Crusade against the heathens in Prussia ; from which as a new centre of activity it spread itself over the Baltic region , obtaining , in return for the service which it there rendered to Christianity , a solid
reward of temporal power and splendour which rose to a climax in the middle of the fourteenth century , under the prosperous rule of the Grand Master , "Winrich von Kneiprode , in whose days the sovereignty of the Order was absolute from the mouth of the Narva ,
along the entire coast , to the region west of the Vistula . " The occupation of the Baltic coast by men of the German race was consummated at this period by the agency of two powerful and dissimilar impulses . While the Teutonic Knights , in the name of Christianity , made conversion the mere handmaid of conquest , and
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Chiyaley,
more developed than in most other races . Southern nations confounding liveliness of feeling with intensity , and nervous excitability with moral sensibility , have been deceived by the cool character of the Teutonic nations , and have accused them of indifference .
But the most superficial examination will show their deep sensibility—a fact proved hy their poetry . The Teutonic nations are less excitable than th e Celtic , the Sclavonian , and other races , but capable of deeper thought . Southern races have accomplished great things by" sudden effortsr ; the Teutonic have reserved their enterprise for vast plans , which have required centuries to carry into
effect . Tims they destroyed the Roman empire after a struggle of three centuries , and formed new kingdoms in Europe upon social principles which have maintained their vigour to the present day . The Normans became powerful wherever the sea permitted them to effect a landing . The Germans , after spreading their numbers over Western Europe , turned back to the East , then occupied by Sclavoiiians whom they conquered , and were thus ^ enabled to
civilise the east of Europe . Lastly , the English , by their colonies , have extended their language and influence over the whole surface of the habitable globe . Their dominions in the East and the West , as well as the empire rising in Australia , are the results of plans which imply more boldness of conception , more prudence in execution , and more reflection , than the conquests of Alexander the Great , or the ephemeral power of the first Napoleon .
It was this combination : of well considered plans , of untiring energy ^ and . of indomitable courage , that enabled these bands of knightly chivalry to withstand for nearly two centuries the attacks of hordes of Moslems ten times their number ; and we have parallel cases in modern history of the invincible energy of the same
Teutonic race . A century ago Olive , with but 900 British and 2 , 200 native troops , defeated and put to flight at Plassey the Nabob of Bengal with 70 , 000 men and fifty pieces of cannon ; and recent events in India furnish many more such instances of Anglo-Saxon power and determination .
A niodern writer has remarked that " There are two principal features in the story of the Teutonic Knights . The existence of the Order was secured , when its first object was lost with the Holy Land , by the Crusade against the heathens in Prussia ; from which as a new centre of activity it spread itself over the Baltic region , obtaining , in return for the service which it there rendered to Christianity , a solid
reward of temporal power and splendour which rose to a climax in the middle of the fourteenth century , under the prosperous rule of the Grand Master , "Winrich von Kneiprode , in whose days the sovereignty of the Order was absolute from the mouth of the Narva ,
along the entire coast , to the region west of the Vistula . " The occupation of the Baltic coast by men of the German race was consummated at this period by the agency of two powerful and dissimilar impulses . While the Teutonic Knights , in the name of Christianity , made conversion the mere handmaid of conquest , and