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Rh times has produced a thinker like Copernic, a hero like Sobieski, a musician like Chopin, a poet like Mickiewicz, a physicist like Madame Curie, a race which still can boast of the most beautiful, the most witty women of Central Europe, cannot be said to be so incurably inferior to the heavy-booted, sword-rattling Prussian, nor will such a race be subjected much longer to brutal persecution.