race of people and leave these ingredients out of the formula.

As a nation, Holland first developed them so that they
became the characteristic of the whole people.

It was the slow, steady stream of Hollanders pushing southward
that civilized Germany.

Music as a science was born in Holland. The grandfather of
Beethoven was a Dutchman.

Gutenberg's forebears were from Holland.

And when the Hollanders had gone clear through Germany,
and then traversed Italy, and came back home by way of
Venice, they struck the rock of spiritual resources and the
waters gushed forth.

Since Rembrandt carried portraiture to the point of perfection,
two hundred and fifty years ago, Holland has been a
land of artists--and it is so even unto this day.

John Jacob Astor was born of a Dutch family that had
migrated down to Heidelberg from Antwerp. Through some
strange freak of atavism the father of the boy bred back, and
was more or less of a stone-age cave-dweller. He was a
butcher by trade, in the little town of Waldorf, a few miles
from Heidelberg. A butcher's business then was to travel
around and kill the pet pig, or sheep, or cow that the tender-
hearted owners dare not harm. The butcher was a pariah, a