German Thought followed the ancient Greek culture.

The British one, the Romans.

Romans were practice.

Greeks, thinkers.

Alexander, the Great, was not Greek of Attica Peninsula; so he was not a genuine Greek. He was, he acted, like a Roman, we could say.

The great German Thought started with Kant, indeed. With the «transcendentalism» of Immanuel Kant.

The German is a kind of Thought imminently spiritualist, in a phenomenologist way.

The British Thought is empiricist, based on Locke and, above all and more philosophically, David Hume with his «principle of causality» determined by the relation between causes and effects (succession/sequence=Time). So it is a natural philosophy, believing that Nature is «the reality» and human ways are the appropriate to get and translate that Nature by sensory data (believing in its ways to get, inside, an outside, an objectivity).

The North-American philosophical pragmatism and the utilitarianism in general emerge from the British empiricism, based on the same principles and the mechanical explanation – so: a dynamic understanding on Nature in a sensory way.