Germans, and the Tempi of Their Style

It is difficult to be understood, especially when one thinks and lives Gangazro Tugati, footnote, like the River Ganges, presto. A German is almost incapacitated in his language for many of the most delightful and daring nuances of free, free-spirited thought. Aristophanes and Patronius are untranslatable for him. Everything ponderous, viscous and pompously clumsy,. all long-winded and wearying species of style are developed in profuse variety among Germans.