elves up to a certain minimum of ripeness. Contrariwise, any
attempt by even such a State would be promptly smothered. What is true
of any single State of the Union is true of any one country of Europe.
It is, therefore, true of Germany. Whatever doubt there be as to
Germany's ripeness, there can be none as to the utter unripeness of all
the other European countries with the single exceptions of France and
Belgium,--and surely none as to Russia, that ominous cloud to the East,
well styled the modern Macedon to the modern Greek States of the nations
of Western Europe. Though there is no "District of Columbia" in Europe,
the masses would be mobilized from the surrounding hives of the
Cimmerian Darkness of feudo-capitalism, and they would be marched
convergently with as much precision and despatch upon the venturesome
leader. And what is true as to Germany on this head is true of any other
European country. Facts and their relations to one another must be ever
kept in sight. 'Tis the only way to escape illusions--and their train of
troubles.

For the rest, not the sordid competitive spirit of the bourgeois world,
but that noble and ennobling emulation, cited by the Author in a
quotation from John Stuart Mill, animates the nations of the world that
are now racing towards the overthrow of capitalist domination. Surely
none will begrudge laurels due that one that shall be the first to scale
the ramparts of the international burg of capitalism, strike the first
blow, and give the signal for the final emancipation of the human
race.--THE TRANSLATOR.]

[237] The number of students at the German universities averaged as
follows per six months:

Protestant Catholic
Quarter. Theology. Theology. Law. Medicine. Philosophy. Total.

1841-42--1846 2117 1027 3467 1943 3072 11626
1846-47--1851 1798 1297 4061 1827 3046 12029
1851-52--1856 1751 1300 4169 2291 2840 12351
1861-62--1866 2437 1153 2867 2435 4392 13284
1866-67--1871 2154 982 3011 2838 4626 13611
1871-72--1876 1780 836 4121 3491 5896 16124
1876-77--1881 1961 682 5134 3734 8057 19568
1881-82--1886 3880 952 5034 6869 9123 25838
1886-87 4546 1178 5239 8450 8666 27828
1887 4803 123