The German hour has come at last

It is all coming down, in the Western economy, as it should, to Germany and the United States.

As the American Revolution began in 1775, Prussia, the core of modern Germany, had just entered the ranks of the Great Powers under Frederick the Great. At the time, the American colonies were dismissed in London and Europe as knots of raw-boned colonists clinging to the Atlantic shore and fending off savages, though they in fact had 30% of the population of Great Britain, and a higher standard of living than any country in Europe.

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