The Germans do really say that Englishmen are only Sea-Germans, as our haddocks were only sea-horses.

They do really say that the nightingales of Tuscany or the pearls of Hellas must somehow be German birds or German jewels.

They do maintain that the Italian Renaissance was really the German Renaissance, pure Germans having Italian names when they were painters, as cockneys sometimes have when they are hair-dressers.

They suggest that Jesus and the great Jews were Teutonic.

One Teutonist I read actually explained the fresh energy of the French Revolution and the stale privileges of its German enemies by saying that the Germanic soul awoke in France and attacked the Latin influence in Germany.