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Friday, May 6, 2011

Jerome K. Jerome on the Germans

In Three Men on the Bummel , Jerome lauds the German people for their obedience and desire to conform with the law.  He describes them as morally probably the best people in the world. He than adds a remarkably prescient comment:

        "Hitherto, the German has had the blessed fortune to be exceptionally well governed; if this continue, it will go well with him. When his troubles will begin will be when by any chance something goes wrong with the governing machine."


—Chapter XIV