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150 phrases. He oppressed the Pole, merely because the Russian was the stronger. The Prussian oppresses the Pole, and calls it civilizing him. He brands him as being of an inferior stamp. German Liberals for two generations have denounced the imperial policy of expropriation and Germanization. But it is getting worse. The Pole is not allowed to hold public meetings, or to wear his national colours. The Polish child is not allowed to pray in its mother-tongue, because German culture, forsooth, in virtue of its superiority must stamp out Polish culture. The Polish peasant is not allowed to possess the land of his fathers, and whereas the Russian bureaucracy in the days of Milioutine has distributed millions of acres to Polish peasants, the Prussian bureaucracy have already spent hundreds of millions of marks to expropriate them.

VIII of space prevents me from discussing the Prussian theory. Nor is it worth discussing. The whole pedantic contention can be disproved by the summary verdict of history, and disposed of in the following single statement of fact: Surely a race which in modern