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became confused with the Wendic plain, nor to the west, where it joined the oceanic depression of Gaul. As to Bavaria between the Lech and the Ems, which were purely indicative frontiers, and the forest of Bohemia and the Alps always passable, and indeed pene- trated, it corresponded in large measure to the upper basin of the Danube forming a plateau, in contrast with low Germany in this respect. It is thus that Saxony and Bavaria were often opposed to one another in politics also, and in customs, in law, and in religion. Even Bavarian socialism was to differ from that of Bebel; but in reality this division did not constitute an absolute line of demarkation, any more than did the physical divisions; on the contrary, it represented a differentiation favorable to the extension of socialism and to its adaptation to regions of Germany which are distinct, but not separate.