Excerpt from The Earth and Its Inhabitants, Vol. 3: Europe Vienna, which occupies the centre of this incoherent empire, has certainly exerted a considerable levelling influence upon the various races peopling the empire. These latter, however, resent the pressure which is exercised by the two dominant races, and the time is not. Perhaps verv remote when the existing institu tions will be replaced by a federation voluntarily organized by the nationalities inhabiting the empire. 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.