Excerpt from German Sea-Power: Its Rise and Progress, and Economic Basis Www-epon the seas that dominating position which she once undoubtedly held Why, with her expanding population, trade, and wealth, should She not reclaim that maritime ascendancy which she forfeited to Holland in the seventeenth century, and which a hundred years later passed to Great Britain Why should She not realize that dream which was in the mind of eliedrich List when he wrote: How easy it would have en m Hanse towns, in the epoch of their rule over the sea, to attain national unity through the instru mentality of the imperial power, to unite the whole littoral from Dunkirk to Riga under one nationality, and thus to win and maintain for the German nation supremacy in industry, trade, and sea-power I. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.