What do you see?
Factory chimneys, furnaces everywhere.

And further on--what?
Well-tilled lands, clean, prosperous villages, a happy, domestic people.

I tell you that no man in the world is so fond of his wife and children, his simple life, his simple pleasures, as the German." "Very likely," Norgate assented, "but if you look out of the windows continually you will also see that every station-master on the line wears a military uniform, that every few miles you see barracks.

These simple peasants you speak of carry themselves with a different air from ours.

I don't know much about it, but I should call it the effect of their military training.