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Excerpt from The Old and the New Germany
Germanism. The risk does not appall him. For he is convinced that no American whose goodwill he would wish to gain or retain, applies the pro-english or anti-english, the pro-irish or anti-irish, the pro French or anti-french, the pro-german or anti German test to his Americanism or to that of his acquaintances. Should the time ever come, Which God forbid, when it no longer suffices to cherish an intelligent understanding of the principles on which American institutions were founded, a sturdy faith in them and an active loyalty to them, then lordly judgments will be in order and America will be come a meaningless word. Understanding, faith, and loyalty cannot long endure and continue to make for the progress of our country and the ad vancement of civilization if we make them sub servient to national animosities.
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