"Maybe the day will come, when, gifted with wealth, I can enter the workshops of Philadelphia, and say to the workmen, 'Come, brothers. Here is CAPITAL. Let us go to the west. Let us find a spot of God's earth unpolluted by white or black slavery. Let us build a community where every man shall work with his hands, and where every man will also have the opportunity to cultivate his mind--to work with his brain.--There every one will have a place to work, and every one will receive the fruits of his work. And there,--oh, my God!--there will we, without priest, or monopolist, or slaveholder, establish in the midst of a band of brothers, the worship of that Christ who was himself a workman, even as he is now, the workman's God.'" Arthur Dermoyne had started from his chair; his hands were clasped; his gray eyes were filled with tears. "French ideas--French ideas," cried Herman. "You have been reading French books, young man!" Arthur looked at the clergyman, and said quietly: "These ideas were held by the German race who settled in Pennsylvania, in the time of William Penn. Driven, from Germany by the hands of Protestant priests, they brought with them to the New World, the '_French ideas_' of the New Testament." "The Germans who settled Pennsylvania--a stupid race," observed Herman, in calm derision; "Look at some of their descendants." "The Germans of the present day--or, to speak more distinctly,--the Pennsylvania Germans, descendants of the old stock, who came over about the time of Penn, are a _conquered_ race!--" "A _conquered_ race?" echoed Herman. "_Conquered_ by the English language," continued Dermoyne. "As a mass, they are not well instructed either in English or in German, and therefore have no chance to develop, to its fullest extent, the stamina of their race. They know but little of the real history of their ancestors, who first brought to Pennsylvania the great truth, that God is not a God of hatred, pleased with blood, but a God of love, whose great law is the PROGRESS of all his children,--that is, the entire family of man, both HERE and HEREAFTER. And the Pennsylvanian Germans are the scoff and sneer of Yankee swindler and southern braggart; but the day will come, when the descendants of that race will rise to their destiny, and even as the farms of Pennsylvania now show their _physical_ progress, so will the entire American continent bear witness to their _intellectual_ power. They are of the race of Luther, of Goethe, and of Schiller,--hard to kill,--the men who can work, and the men whose work will make a people strong, a nation great and noble." "You are of this race?" asked Herman, pulling his cloak gently with his delicate hand.