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Indeed, the Italian paid high tribute to his listeners' fatherland for two inventions: gunpowder, which had turned feudalism's suits of armor into junk, and the printing press, which had made possible the democratic propagation of ideas, or rather, the propagation of democratic ideas.

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'Our beloved Germany is one huge barracks, granted. But a great deal of hard work went into it, and I would not trade our sturdy honesty for the fine manners of other nations. What good are fine manners if I'm being cheated up one side and down the other?'

Growing Anxiety / Two Grandfathers and a Twilight Boat Ride within Chapter 4 has Settembrini compare his grandfather to that of Hans Castorp grandfather and what the two achieved for humanity and for the people of their country.

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Yes, time is a puzzling thing, there is something about it that is hard to explain.