Germania

Germania is a cold land.

All of Germania is separated from the Gauls, Raetians and Pannonians by the rivers Rhine and Danube, and from the Sarmatians and Dacians by mutual awe or mountains: the ocean surrounds the rest, encompassing wide peninsulas and the vast areas of islands, their peoples and kings just recently known to us, with whom war has now begun.

Since that time the distinction between the two races, the conqueror or Gothic and the Roman or conquered, had almost disappeared, and the men of the north had become confounded with those of midday in a single nation, to whose grandiosity had contributed that with the rough virtues of savage Germania, this with the traditions of Roman culture and polity.

The ancient Romans were much more familiar with North Africa and West Asia than they were with Germania or Scythia.

The modern state of Germany should not be confused with ancient Germania.

Ancient Germania is at least one of the ancestors of most of Europe.

To the extent that Germans are linguistically a continuation of ancient Germania, this is just as true of English people, Scottish people, Dutch people, Indian people who speak English, and even Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews.

The City of London standing, wearing a helmet surmounted by a dragon, resting her right hand upon a low throne, on which is seated Germania, and pointing with her left hand to the shipping in the river Thames. On her left, resting against a stone balustrade, is a shield bearing the arms, crest, supporters, and motto of the City of London. Germania holds a sword in her left hand, her right hand resting on a shield bearing the arms of Germany.

In the evening the Kaiser gave a grand banquet in a large hall constructed in the form of a full-rigged sailing vessel of the 17th century, the stem being adorned by a colossal figure of Germania, wearing a winged helmet.

Aside from the impressive memories that it awakens, it is an imposing work of art, for the entire monument is more than one hundred feet in height,—the majestic figure of Germania, holding a crown and sword adorned with laurel wreaths, being itself thirty-three feet high.