text: " In like manner we would say--Visit the Rhine not as most tourists do by rushing in a steam-boat from Rotterdam or Cologne to Basle or Baden but deliberately on shore as well as on the water climbing the mountains and strolling through the valleys seeking out the innumerable and enchanting points of view and contemplating them by sunset and sunrise in the broad glare of noon and by the subdued evening light; and then say whether such a country is not worthy of different inhabitants from the mongrel race part German part Flemish part French which it now possesses--a population which when it has consumed its five or six heavy meals smoked a dozen or two pipes and slept its long sleep of repletion considers it has done its duty to God and man and troubles itself little with such intangible matters as poetical reveries or mental cultivation