But he adds that the Young Hegelians contributed to the spread of socialism against their will, that it was through the interest they took in its speculations and experiments that socialism acquired credit and support in public opinion in Germany, and that the earliest traces of avowed socialism are to be found in the rhenish Gazette.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Whoever rises from the perusal of those numerous notices of the ancient Germans which we find in the classical writers, to the usual tour of rhenish Germany, will find a notable contrast between the natives of that region as they were and as they are.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
Little heeds he of such trifling matters, while he "quaffs his rhenish down."
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou