called heroism. Thus, at last, a purer air would waft upon old Europe, in its present over-populated and brooding state. What matter if there should be want of “hands"? Perhaps we may their recall to mind that we have accustomed ourselves to many wants because they were so easily gratified only,—we may unlearn some of these wants. Perlaps the Chinaman will be called in, and he would bring along with him the mode of thinking and living suitable for the bees of industry. Indeed, they might altogether help in giving to restless, fretful Europe a little of his Asiatic calmness and contemplativeness, and,— what is perhaps most needful,— of his Asiatic Perseverance.
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Attitude of the Germans towards morality.—A German is capable of great things, but it is improbable that he will ever accomplish them, for he obeys wherever he can, as befits a torpid intellect. When reduced to the necessity of standing alone and slinking off his torpor, when it is no longer possible for him to vanish as a cipher in a number {in this respect he is greatly inferior to a Frenchman or Englisimman),—he discovers his true abilities: then he grows dangerous, evil, deep, bold and discloses the hidden store of dormant energy, in which previously no one(not even he) placed any trust. When in such a case a German obeys himself,—this is the great exception, —he does so with the same clusiness,
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