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hesitation, for instance, the nobleman officer from the Prussian border: it would be interesting in many ways to see whether the genius for money and patience (and especially some intellect and intellectuality⁠—sadly lacking in the place referred to) could not in addition be annexed and trained to the hereditary art of commanding and obeying⁠—for both of which the country in question has now a classic reputation. But here it is expedient to break off my festal discourse and my sprightly Teutonomania: for I have already reached my serious topic , the “European problem,” as I understand it, the rearing of a new ruling caste for Europe.