Chapter 7: The Other European Nations in the Individualistic Era
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| Source | America and the New Epoch |
| Year | 1916 |
| Section ID | america-and-new-epoch-chapter-08 |
| Location | lines 3207-3740 |
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| Word Count | 3108 |
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Opening Source Excerpt
Section titled “Opening Source Excerpt”VII THE OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS IN THE INDI- VIDUALISTIC ERA FRxVNCE has never become a great industrial country like England or Germany. Weak- ened by a generation of continual war under the first Napoleon, its recovery retarded by the reactionary period under the unholy alliance and the revolutions of 1830 and 1848, which led to the Second Empire with its repeated wars, and ended in the disastrous Franco-Prussian war, France never had the chance of undis- turbed industrial development which other nations had. The decreasing birth-rate, and finally the decreasing population, made the social problem less severe than in nations with rapidly increasing population, as Germany, where national production had to provide not only for the existing population, but for a great increase of population. Adding hereto the thrift and the saving habits of theSource-Located Theme Snippets
Section titled “Source-Located Theme Snippets”Field language
Section titled “Field language”... Though France was unable to compete with England or Germany in supplying the standard industrial products to the world's markets, the inborn artistic temperament of the French na- tion made France successful in a limited but very profitable field, and in all those industries in which an artistic sense is necessary France became, and is to-day, predominant in the markets of the world, and has no competition to fear. Thus the waves of the conflict for industrial supremacy between E ...Waves / transmission lines
Section titled “Waves / transmission lines”... France successful in a limited but very profitable field, and in all those industries in which an artistic sense is necessary France became, and is to-day, predominant in the markets of the world, and has no competition to fear. Thus the waves of the conflict for industrial supremacy between England, Germany, and America left France untouched. France's rising financial power was repeatedly set back — by the extravagance of the Second Fmpire, by the war indemnity to Germany, and re ...Radiation / light
Section titled “Radiation / light”... than Japan was when the American ships opened it to Western civilization; and it took Japan two generations to rise to equality with the Western civilized nations. ^Vhat Rus- sia needs is not political freedom and parlia- mentarism, but an enlightened autocrat like Frederic II. of Prussia was in the middle of the eighteenth century, who establishes schools everywhere throughout the country, and forces all the people to send their children to school. Then, in a generation, Russia can ...Transients / damping
Section titled “Transients / damping”... er since leaned toward Russia, and become practically a Russian dependency, while Roumania and Bulgaria gravitated into the Austrian sphere of influence, since it was Russia which threatened their national exist- ence, by considering them as a temporary ar- rangement, pending absorption by Russia. Thus the alignment of these nations in the present war was to be expected, in spite of the enmity between Bulgaria and Roumania, en- OTHER EUROPEAN NATIONS gendered by the second Balkan war. R ...Chapter-Local Concept Hits
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