Where is the generosity, the loyalty, the charm of our ESPRIT, and our former elevation of soul?
If this goes on, the time will come when this noble race of France will be known only by its faults.

And France has no idea that while she is sinking, more earnest nations are stealing the march upon her, are distancing her on the road to progress, and are preparing for her a secondary position in the world.
"I am afraid that these opinions will not be relished in France.

However correct, they differ too much from what is usually said and asserted at home.

I should wish some enlightened and unprejudiced Frenchmen to come to Prussia and make this country their study.

They would soon discover that they were living in the midst of a strong, earnest, and intelligent nation, entirely destitute, it is true, of noble and delicate feelings, of all fascinating charms, but endowed with every solid virtue, and alike distinguished for untiring industry, order, and economy, as well as for patriotism, a strong sense of duty, and that consciousness of personal dignity which in their case is so happily blended with respect for authority and obedience to the law.