The Evolution of an Empire A Brief Historical Sketch of Germany By: Mary Platt Parmele (1843-1911)
First Page: THE EVOLUTION OF AN EMPIRE A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF GERMANY BY MARY PARMELE SECOND EDITION NEW YORK WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON, 59 FIFTH AVENUE 1893. COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY PARMELE & CHAFFEE. Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. Indo European Migrations Divisions of the Aryan Family into European Races Laying the Foundations of the German Empire CHAPTER II. Hermann Subdivisions of the Teutonic Race CHAPTER III. Ulfila Migrations of Teutonic Races Fall of Rome before Alaric Hunnish Invasion Modern Europe foreshadowed CHAPTER IV. Anglo Saxon Occupation of Britain CHAPTER V. Teuton Occupation of Gaul Final Severing of Connection with Roman Empire Clovis, King of France Merovingian Kings Pippin Beginning of Carlovingian Line CHAPTER VI. Charlemagne Separation of France and Germany Growth of Spiritual Power Conflict between Pope Gregory VII. and Henry IV. Entire Supremacy of the Church CHAPTER VII. Europe in the Hands of Three Men Charles V., Francis I., and Henry VIII. Indulgences sold by Leo X. Birth of Protestantism CHAPTER VIII. Thirty Years' War Decay of the German Empire CHAPTER IX. Napoleon Bonaparte German Empire Extinct Waterloo German States confederated, with Austria at the Head CHAPTER X. Schleswig Holstein Bismarck War with Austria Königgrätz CHAPTER XI. Napoleon III. War with France Germans in Paris William crowned German Emperor at Versailles CHAPTER XII. Death of Emperor William Death of Frederick William II. Emperor His Policy Situation in Europe EVOLUTION OF AN EMPIRE. CHAPTER I. Foundation building is neither picturesque nor especially interesting, but it is indispensable. However fair the structure is to be, one must first lay the rough hewn stones upon which it is to rest. It would be much pleasanter in this sketch to display at once the minarets and towers, and stained glass windows; but that can only be done when one's castle is in Spain. Would we comprehend the Germany of to day, we must hold firmly in our minds an epitome of what it has been, and see vividly the devious path of its development through the ages. The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan; its ancestral roots running back until lost in the heart of Asia, in the mists of antiquity. The home of the Aryan race is shrouded in mystery, as are the impelling causes which sent those successive tides of humanity into Europe. But we know with certainty that when the last great wave spread over Eastern Europe, or Russia, about one thousand years before Christ, the submergence of that continent was complete. Before the coming of the Aryan, the Rhine flowed as now; the Alps pierced the sky with their glistening peaks as they do to day; the Danube, the Rhône, hurried on, as now, toward the sea. Was it all a beautiful, unpeopled solitude waiting in silence for the richly endowed Asiatic to come and possess it? Far from it. It was teeming with humanity if, indeed, we may call such the race which modern research and discovery has revealed to us. It is only within the last thirty years that anything whatever has been known of prehistoric man; but now we are able to reconstruct him with probable accuracy. A creature, bestial in appearance and in life; dwelling in caves, which, however, a dawning sense of a higher humanity led him to decorate with carvings of birds and fishes; but, certain it is, the brain which inhabited that skull was incapable of performing the mental processes necessary to the simplest form of civilization; and life must have been to him simply a thing of fierce appetites and brutal instincts. Such was the being encountered by the Aryan, when he penetrated the mysterious land beyond the confines of Greece and Italy... Continue reading book >>

The Evolution of an Empire A Brief Historical Sketch of Germany By: Mary Platt Parmele (1843-1911)

First Page:

THE

EVOLUTION OF AN EMPIRE

A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF

GERMANY

MARY PARMELE

SECOND EDITION

NEW YORK

WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON,

59 FIFTH AVENUE

1893.

PARMELE & CHAFFEE.

Press of J. J. Little & Co.

Astor Place, New York

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Indo European Migrations Divisions of the Aryan Family into European Races Laying the Foundations of the German Empire

CHAPTER II.

Hermann Subdivisions of the Teutonic Race

CHAPTER III.

Ulfila Migrations of Teutonic Races Fall of Rome before Alaric Hunnish Invasion Modern Europe foreshadowed

CHAPTER IV.

Anglo Saxon Occupation of Britain

CHAPTER V.

Teuton Occupation of Gaul Final Severing of Connection with Roman Empire Clovis, King of France Merovingian Kings Pippin Beginning of Carlovingian Line

CHAPTER VI.

Charlemagne Separation of France and Germany Growth of Spiritual Power Conflict between Pope Gregory VII. and Henry IV. Entire Supremacy of the Church

CHAPTER VII.

Europe in the Hands of Three Men Charles V., Francis I., and Henry VIII. Indulgences sold by Leo X. Birth of Protestantism

CHAPTER VIII.

Thirty Years' War Decay of the German Empire

CHAPTER IX.

Napoleon Bonaparte German Empire Extinct Waterloo German States confederated, with Austria at the Head

CHAPTER X.

Schleswig Holstein Bismarck War with Austria Königgrätz

CHAPTER XI.

Napoleon III. War with France Germans in Paris William crowned German Emperor at Versailles

CHAPTER XII.

Death of Emperor William Death of Frederick William II. Emperor His Policy Situation in Europe

EVOLUTION OF AN EMPIRE.

CHAPTER I.

Foundation building is neither picturesque nor especially interesting, but it is indispensable. However fair the structure is to be, one must first lay the rough hewn stones upon which it is to rest. It would be much pleasanter in this sketch to display at once the minarets and towers, and stained glass windows; but that can only be done when one's castle is in Spain.

Would we comprehend the Germany of to day, we must hold firmly in our minds an epitome of what it has been, and see vividly the devious path of its development through the ages.

The German nation is of ancient lineage, and indeed belongs to the royal line of human descent, the Aryan; its ancestral roots running back until lost in the heart of Asia, in the mists of antiquity.

The home of the Aryan race is shrouded in mystery, as are the impelling causes which sent those successive tides of humanity into Europe. But we know with certainty that when the last great wave spread over Eastern Europe, or Russia, about one thousand years before Christ, the submergence of that continent was complete.

Before the coming of the Aryan, the Rhine flowed as now; the Alps pierced the sky with their glistening peaks as they do to day; the Danube, the Rhône, hurried on, as now, toward the sea. Was it all a beautiful, unpeopled solitude waiting in silence for the richly endowed Asiatic to come and possess it? Far from it. It was teeming with humanity if, indeed, we may call such the race which modern research and discovery has revealed to us. It is only within the last thirty years that anything whatever has been known of prehistoric man; but now we are able to reconstruct him with probable accuracy. A creature, bestial in appearance and in life; dwelling in caves, which, however, a dawning sense of a higher humanity led him to decorate with carvings of birds and fishes; but, certain it is, the brain which inhabited that skull was incapable of performing the mental processes necessary to the simplest form of civilization; and life must have been to him simply a thing of fierce appetites and brutal instincts. Such was the being encountered by the Aryan, when he penetrated the mysterious land beyond the confines of Greece and Italy... Continue reading book >>

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