Excerpt from The Gospel in All Lands, 1888: A Monthly Missionary Magazine Switzerland is a curiosity among nations. Its exist ence in a unity nearly perfect politically sets at defiance most of our modern theories on the subject of national union. It has no unity of language; there are four tongues in its Parliament. It is not united in religion: the people are both Catholic and Protestant, and the ardent controversies of former times have, if not tires, at least live ashes still burning. They are not of one race three great races are represented. And the Italian Swiss is an Italian, the french-swiss is a Frenchman, and the German isa German, in all except those feelings and mental traits which go to make up that mysterious human modification which we call national character. This character is found alike in Italian, Frenchman, and German, and alike also in Catholic and Protestant. 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.