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[Broadbent Fritts]

An people seemed hopelessly crushed and defeated,--an intellect more
penetrating than that of Bismarck grasped the logic of the situation.
With the inspiration that comes with true insight, the philosopher
Fichte issued his famous Addresses to the German people. With clear-cut
argument couched in white-hot words, he drove home the great principle
that lies at the basis of United Germany and upon the results of which
Bismarck and Von Moltke and the first Emperor erected the splendid
structure that to-day commands the admiration of the world. Fichte told
the German people that their only hope lay in universal, public
education. And the kingdom of Prussia--impoverished, bankrupt,
war-ridden, and war-devastated--heard the plea. A great scheme that
comprehended such an education was already at hand. It had fallen almost
stillborn from the only kind of a mind that could have produced it,--a
mind that was suffused with an overwhelming love for humanity and
incomparably rich with the practical experiences of a primary
schoolmaster. It had fallen from the mind of Pestalozzi, the Swiss
reformer, who thus stands with Fichte as one of the vital factors in the
development of Germany's educational supremacy. The people's schools of
Prussia, imbued with the enthusiasm of Fichte and Pestalozzi,[3] gave to
Germany the tremendous advantage that enabled it so easily to ov
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