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230 we still are. And therefore you will yet make the experience that it is a vain undertaking to attempt to influence the German women and through them the German men. Because most German men are philistines, saloon-loungers, money-makers and born subjects, therefore most German women are mere nothings, neglected, prosaic, apathetic beings, without intellectual vitality and higher interests; and since this is the prevailing condition, the few exceptions are discouraged from coming to the front. I as a woman am looking for superior men and find none; you as a man are looking for superior women and find none. So we can mutually console each other, but we shall both have to come to the conclusion that it is principally this country and the life here that is to blame. Please to bear in mind, moreover, this one circumstance, which seems to me to be of especial importance. In Europe nature and culture unite in making travel a joy and a need. Traveling in beautiful surroundings and in the atmosphere of civilization stimulates sociability, opens the hearts, and affords opportunity for making acquaintances by bringing like-minded people together in the proper mood. But what has this country to offer? Suppose you and I and half a dozen other friends were to undertake a pleasure trip here, for the sake of flapping our wings with greater liberty for a while — whither should we turn? Where is the Italy in whose beauty we could revel; where is the Geneva Lake upon which we could float; where is