GROWTH OF GERMANY.
The growth of Germany since the war with France is the most remarkable phenomenon of modern Europe. Since the treaty of peace was signed in 1871, Germany has not extended her territory by a single acre on the Continent of Europe (if we accept the acquisition of Heligoland), but she has increased her population by sixteen millions. The Germans numbered forty millions in 1871; they number fifty-six millions now, and yet, although there are so many more mouths to feed, the Germans are better fed, better clothed, and in every way more prosperous than they were then. This is attributed largely to the fact that for twenty years Germany devoted herself to improving the elementary education of her people, while the following ten years were spent in the higher education, with the; result that in the twentieth century she will have a body of men each an expert in his own trade or profession.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2360, 3 May 1901, Page 3
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