Luxembourg the Grand Duchy and Its People (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Luxembourg the Grand Duchy and Its People<br><br>The world appears to be fast outgrowing its Ruritanias. We are in an era of vast states and huge empires; there is not a little land but is threatened, more or less alarmingly, by a powerful neighbour, ready to throw out a bayonet-bristling frontier and so add yet more to the fabric of wide dominion. What Ruritanias have gone to make our empires of to-day, and with their going what romance has ended! What individuality and personality have often been swallowed up by the Moloch of Might, crushed in the arms of Ambition!<br><br>But it is not only the imperial desire for the biggest possible "place in the sun" which is robbing the world of its Ruritanias. The Empire of Speed is one of the greediest.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.