Sentence:  What he imagined the social order and the experience of the <WSD>Teutons</WSD> actually to have been, and why this lost world should represent an ideal, is, it must be said, hard to discover. His pronouncements on the <WSD>Teutons</WSD> of the Dark Ages are decidedly sparse. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A member of an early (Germanic) tribe living in (Jutland) noted in historical writings by Greek and Roman authors.