99 99 99 99 99 ---------------------------------------- ------------------- ,transcriber's ,note3 ,inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved4 ,bold text in this e-text is marked like so4 ---------------------------------------- ------------------- 99 99 99 99 99 ,,gems 787 ,,of ,,german ,,thought ,,compiled ,,by ,,william ,,archer ,illustration ,,garden ,,city ,,new ,,york ,,doubleday1 ,,page ,,company #aiag ,copyright1 #aiag1 by ,,doubleday1 ,,page ,,company ,all rights reserved1 including that of translation into foreign languages1 including the ,scandinavian ,,thor',s ,,hammer-,,cast ,thor stood at the midnight end of the world1 ,his battle-mace flew from his hand3 ,so far as my clangorous hammer ,i've hurled ,mine are the sea and the land6 ,and onward hurtled the mighty sledge ,o'er the wide1 wide earth1 to fall ,at last on the ,southland's furthest edge ,in token that ,his was all4 ,since then 'tis the joyous ,german right ,with the hammer lands to win4 ,we mean to inherit world-wide might ,as the ,hammer-,god's kith and kin4 ,,felix ,,dahn 7#ahgh74 ,,contents ,,page ,,introduction #c ,i ,,deutschland ,,ber ,,alles #ca ,german ,humility #ca ,the ,gentle ,german #di ,the ,great ,misunderstood #ee ,kultur #eg ,der deutsche ,gott #fi ,the ,chosen ,people and its ,mission #gh ,other ,peoples #hd ,christ #hh ,die deutsche ,wahrheit #id ,german ,insight and ,foresight #ih ,german ,freedom #ajj ,the ,german ,language #aja ,,ii ,,german ,,ambitions #ajg ,expansion in ,europe #ajg ,expansion beyond ,europe #aah ,weltmacht #abb ,,iii ,,war-,,worship #acc ,the ,lust of ,battle #acc ,war and ,religion #ace ,war and ,ethics #acg ,war and ,biology #adj ,war and ,kultur #adc ,blood and ,iron #ade ,war ,necessary to ,germany #adi ,war ,need not be ,defensive #aec ,contempt for ,peace #aed ,militarism ,exultant #aei ,,iv ,,ruthlessness #afi ,v ,,machiavelism #ahe ,mendacity and ,faithlessness #ahe ,might is ,right #aid ,,vi ,,england1 ,,france1 ,,and ,,belgium--,,especially ,,england #aii ,the ,false ,islanders #aii ,hymns of ,hate #bja ,british ,vices--,hypocrisy1 ,envy1 and ,greed #bjh ,british ,vices--,cowardice and ,laziness #bae ,treachery to ,germanism #bah ,sir ,edward ,grey and his ,colleagues #bbj ,britain's ,great ,illusion #bbc ,comic ,relief #bbh ,france #bcc ,belgium #bce ,index of ,books and ,pamphlets from which quotations are made #bdc ,index of ,authors #bee ,,introduction ,,introduction ,in accordance with classic precedent1 this anthology ought to have consisted of #a1jja ,gems of ,german ,thought1 ,i have been content with half that number1 not--heaven knows6--for any lack of material1 but simply for lack of time and energy to make the ingathering4 ,after all1 enough is as good as a feast1 and ,i think that the evidence as to the dominant characteristics of ,german mentality is tolerably complete as it stands4 ,though ,i hope it is fairly representative1 the collection does not pretend to be systematic4 ,i have cast no sweeping drag-net1 but have simply dipped almost at random into the wide ocean of ,german thought4 ,some of my most precious finds ,i have come upon by pure chance2 and by pure chance1 too1 ,i have no doubt missed many others4 ,some books that ,i should have liked to examine have not been accessible to me2 and there must be many of which ,i have never heard4 ,on the other hand1 the list of books from which my gems have been selected by no means indicates the extent of my reading--or skimming4 ,i have gone through many books and pamphlets which furnished no quotable extracts1 but none that diverged in tone from the rest1 or marred the majestic unison of ,german self-laudation and contempt for the rest of the world4 ,i have read of 7but not seen7 a book by one ,f4,w4 ,frster which is said to contain a protest against theoretic war-worship1 and even a mild defence of ,england4 ,how very mild it is we may judge from this sentence3 ,england has given us not only men like ,lord ,grey1 scoundrels and hypocrites1 who have this war upon their conscience2 it has also given us the ,salvation ,army1 etc41 etc4 ,one voice the reader may be surprised to miss from the great chorus--the voice of ,william the ,second4 ,he is unrepresented--save in one passing remark 7,no4 #acf7--;for two reasons4 ,in the first place1 his most striking utterance--the injunction to his soldiers to emulate the ,huns of ,attila--though almost certainly genuine1 is not official1 and could not be quoted without discussion4#a ,in the second place1 to confess the truth1 ,i shrank from the intolerable monotony of reading his ,majesty's speeches--that endless array of platitudes in full uniform--on the chance of discovering one or two quotable gems4 ,practically all my quotations are taken from books and pamphlets4 ,the sole exceptions are a few extracts from pre-war newspapers1 cited in ,nippold's ,der deutsche ,chauvinismus4 ,it would have been an endless and unprofitable task to garner up the extravagances of ,german newspapers since the outbreak of the war2 not to mention that a ,german anthologist could probably make a pretty effective retort by going through the files of the ,british war press4 ,is my anthology as it stands open to a telling tu quoque by means of a selection of gems from ,british books and pamphlets of the type of those from which ,i have made my gleanings8 ,is it a case of the mote and the beam8 ,i think we may be pretty confident that it is not4 ,i doubt whether the literature of the world can show a parallel to the amazing outburst of tribal arrogance1 unrestrained and unashamed1 of which these pages contain but a few scattered specimens4 ,in the extracts from literature ,before the ,war 7which have always been kept apart from those which date from ,after ,july1 #aiad71 the reader may see this habit of mind growing and gathering strength3 the declaration of war opens the floodgates1 and the torrent rushes forth1 grandiose1 overwhelming1 and1 ,i believe1 unique4 ,i know of only one ,english book in which the ,german taste and temper is emulated4 ,it is certainly a deplorable production2 but it is the work of a wholly unknown man1 whereas many of the most incredible utterances in the following pages proceed from men of world-wide reputation4 ,indeed1 few contemporary ,german names of much distinction are absent from my list4 ,wilamowitz-,mllendorf1 ,harnack1 ,wundt1 ,oncken1 ,eucken1 ,haeckel1 ,naumann1 ,rohrbach1 ,sombart1 ,liszt1 all join with a will in the chorus of arrogance1 ambition1 and hate4 ,many quotations come from a series of pamphlets called ,deutsche ,reden in schwerer ,zeit1 to which all the most eminent professors of ,berlin ,university have contributed1 with some from other universities4 ,i have also1 no doubt1 culled passages from a good many nobodies and busybodies2 but when the nobodies and the somebodies are found to echo and re-echo each other1 the inference is that the general tone of the public mind is very fairly represented4 ,it will be noted that many of the wildest shrieks of self-glorification and ferocity proceed from clerics and theologians4 ,the world as a whole has been curiously blind to the inordinate self-valuation characteristic of the ,german spirit4 ,so long ago as the beginning of last century1 we find ,fichte assuring his countrymen that3 ,there are no two ways about it3 if you founder1 the whole of humanity founders with you1 without hope of any possible restoration4 ,even ,heine1 in the preface to ,deutschland 7#ahdd7 could write half-jestingly that if only the ,germans would out-soar the ,french in deeds1 as they already had in thought1 and if they would carry out in their spiritual and political life some rather vaguely indicated reforms1 not only ,alsace and ,lorraine1 but all ,france1 all ,europe1 the whole world1 would become ,german4 ,i often dream1 he adds1 of this mission1 this universal dominance of ,germany4 ,of course we are not to write ,heine down a ,pan-,german of the modern1 realistic type4 ,there is more than a dash of irony in this passage--he obviously implies that there is very little chance of ,germany fulfilling the conditions that he lays down as indispensable to her world-domination4 ,nevertheless1 there is a sinister significance in the fact that a spirit like his should be found dallying for a moment with dreams of world-supremacy4 ,it was1 of course1 the war of #ahgj1 with its resounding triumphs1 that brought these visions1 so to speak1 within the range of practical politics4 ,for fifteen or twenty years1 ,germany was1 as ,bismarck said1 sated2 but with the coming of the youthful1 pushful1 self-assertive ,kaiser1 her aggressive instincts re-awakened and she fell to brooding over the idea that her incomparable physical and spiritual energies were cabin'd1 cribb'd1 confined4 ,the rapid growth of her population reinforced this idea1 and the increase of her wealth1 as was natural1 only made her greedy for more4 ,the result was that she gave her soul over in fatal earnest to an ambitious and grasping tribalism to which she was1 from of old1 only too prone4 ,the ,pan-,germans were the ,uhlans1 the stormy petrels1 of the movement2 but the whole mind of the nation was in reality carried away by it1 save for a very small section which was conscious of its dangers and feebly protested4 ,the egoism of which she was constantly accusing other nations1 ran riot in her own breast1 was elevated into a political virtue1 and expressed itself on the spiritual side in a towering racial vanity4 ,the word deutsch1 always a word of magical properties1 became the synonym of an unapproachable superiority in every walk of life#b--;a superiority that sanctified aggression and made domination a duty4 ,in many minds1 no doubt1 these sentiments wore a decent mask2 but the moment war broke out1 the mask dropped off1 with the amazing results very imperfectly mirrored in the following pages4 ,but self-worship and the craving for aggrandizement are in reality very uninspiring emotions4 ,the thing that has most deeply impressed me in my searching of the ,german war-scriptures is the extraordinary aridity of spirit that pervades them4 ,a literature more unidea'd 7to use ,johnson's word71 more devoid of original thought1 or grace1 or charm1 or atmosphere1 it would be hard to conceive4 ,there are1 of course1 some inequalities4 ,one or two writers seem 7to the foreign reader7 to have a certain dignity of style which is lacking in the common herd4 ,but in the very best there is little that gives one even literary pleasure1 and nothing that shows any depth of humanity1 any generous feeling1 any openness of outlook4 ,even a happy phrase is so rare that1 when it does occur1 one treasures it4 ,i find1 for instance1 in a little book by ,friedrich ,meinecke1 a distinction between politics of ideas and politics of interests that is happily put and worth remembering4 ,again1 ,professor v4 ,harnack re-states the principle that he's the best cosmopolite who loves his native country best in a rather ingenious way3 ,there is no such thing as fruit1 he says1 there are only apples1 pears1 etc4 ,if we want to be good fruit1 we must be a good apple or a good pear4 ,these are small scintillations1 but the toiler through ,german pamphlet literature is truly grateful for them4 ,for the rest1 when you have read three or four of these pamphlets1 you have read all4 ,the writers seem to be working a sort of ,imperial ,german treadmill1 stepping dutifully from plank to plank of patriotic dogma in a pre-arranged rotation4 ,the topics are few and ever-recurrent--dieser uns aufgezwungene ,krieg 7this war which has been forced upon us71 the glorious uprising of ,germany at its outbreak1 the miracle of mobilization1 the ,russian knout1 ,french frivolity1 the base betrayal of ,germany by envious1 hypocritical ,england1 the immeasurable superiority of ,german ,kultur and ,technik1 the saintly virtues of the ,german soldier1 and so on1 through the appointed litany4 ,there is even a set of obligatory quotations which very few have the strength of mind to resist4 ,by far the most popular is ,geibel's couplet3 ,und es mag am deutschen ,wesen ,einmal noch die ,welt genesen4 7,and the world may once more be healed by the ,german nature1 or character47 ,it came into vogue before the war4 ,the ,kaiser struck the keynote of the whole chorus of self-exaltation when he said 7,august #ca1 #aijg73 ,the ,german people will be the granite block on which the good ,god may build and complete ,his work of ,kultur in the world4 ,then will be fulfilled the word of the poet who said that the world will one day be healed by the ,german character4 ,in the extracts collected in ,nippold's ,der deutsche ,chauvinismus 7a pre-war publication7 the ,geibel couplet appears at least four times--probably oftener4 ,after the outbreak of the war1 it is easier to reckon the utterances in which it does not occur than those in which it does4 ,next in popularity to the ,wesen--genesen catchword comes the ,kaiser's brilliant saying1 ,i no longer know of any parties--,i know only ,german brothers4 ,he is no good ,german who does not quote this with reverent admiration4 ,then come four or five others which are about equally in request3 ,bismarck's ,we ,germans fear ,god1 and nothing else in the world2 the old furor ,teutonicus2 oderint dum metuant2 ,arndt's ,der ,gott der ,eisen wachsen liess1 ,der wollte keine ,knechte-- 7,the ,god who made the iron grow meant none to be a bondman72 and1 finally1 ,und wenn die ,welt voll ,teufel wr'1 ,es soll uns doch gelingen-- 7,and though the world were full of devils1 we should succeed in spite of them47 ,even a scholar of the distinction of ,ulrich v4 ,wilamowitz-,mllendorf1 though he avoids the ,geibel tag1 ends one of his orations by quoting ,deutschland ber ,alles4 ,imagine ,sir ,walter ,raleigh or ,prof4 ,gilbert ,murray winding up an address with a selection from ,rule1 ,britannia6 ,one ,english quotation occurs as often as any1 except the ubiquitous ,wesen-genesen4 ,it is ,my country1 right or wrong1 invariably quoted in the form1 ,right or wrong1 my country4 ,this is supposed to be the shockingly immoral watchword of ,british patriotism4 ,it matters nothing to the ,german pamphleteer that the maxim is ,american1 and that it is never quoted in ,england--nor1 ,i believe1 in the country of its origin--except in a spirit of irony4 ,and in the face of this deadly uniformity of sentiments1 phraseology1 and quotations1 ,professor ,lasson has the audacity to assure us that ,the ,german is personally independent4 ,he wants to judge for himself4 ,it is not so easy for him as for others blindly to follow this or that catchword6 ,we are all1 ,i suppose1 unconscious of our own foibles1 but ,i wonder whether we are all so apt as the ,germans to deny them 7and very likely attribute them to other people7 while in the very act of exemplifying them4 ,for example1 it is firmly fixed in the ,german mind that the ,english consider themselves ,god's ,chosen ,people1 predestined to the empire of the world4 ,i have collected numerous instances of this allegation 7,nos4 #dec-dff71 but not a single one which is substantiated by a quotation from an ,english writer4 ,it is1 ,i am convinced1 impossible to bring evidence for it1 unless some expressions to this effect may be found in the writings of persons who believe that the ,english are descended from the lost ,ten ,tribes--persons who are about as representative of the ,english nation as those who believe that the earth is flat4 ,the ,english mind1 indeed1 is but little inclined to this primitive form of theism4 ,the ,german mind1 on the other hand1 is curiously addicted to it1 and ,i have brought together a number of instances 7,nos4 #aag-ace7 in which ,german writers make the very claim to ,divine calling and election which they falsely attribute to the ,english1 and denounce as insanely presumptuous4#c ,so1 too1 with egoism4 ,the ,germans do not actually consider themselves free from egoism2 on the contrary1 they are rather given to boasting of it 7,nos4 #bab1 #bac1 #bdh1 #cjj72 but while it is a virtue in them1 it is a very repulsive vice in the ,english4 ,as for cant1 which is1 of course1 the commonest charge against the ,english1 one can only say that1 when the ,german gives his mind to it1 he proves himself an accomplished master of the art 7,nos4 #dg1 #ee1 #gi1 #hi1 #id1 #ajd1 #bcg1 #dbc74 ,here is an example1 from a book about ,germany by a ,german-,austrian1#d which scarcely comes within the scope of my anthology1 but it is too characteristic to be lost4 ,if you want1 says the writer1 in italics1 thoroughly to understand the ,german1 you must compare the ,german sportsman with the hunters of other countries4 ,then a sacred thrill 7heiliger ,schauer7 of deep understanding will come over your heart4 ,for the ,german sportsman takes more pleasure in the life that surrounds him and which he protects1 than in the shot which only the last hot virile craving 7,mannesgier7 wrings from him1 and which he fires only when he knows that he will kill1 painlessly kill4 ,for this is the root principle of ,german sportsmanship3 ',god grant me one day such an end as ,i strive to bestow upon the game4' 444 ,and if1 by mischance1 the ,german sportsman wounds without killing a head of game1 he suffers with it1 and does not sleep or rest till he has put it out of its misery4 ,if this be not very nauseous cant1 where shall we seek for it8 ,another curious ,german characteristic is the idea that1 however truculent and menacing a writer's expressions may be1 other people do him and his country a wicked injustice if they take him at his word4 ,a good instance of this occurs in ,ein starkes ,volk--,ein starkes ,heer1 by ,kurd v4 ,strantz1 published in #aiad1 shortly before the war4 ,this writer quotes 7or rather misquotes7 with enthusiasm from ,goethe3-- ,du musst steigen und gewinnen1 ,du musst siegend triumphieren ,oder deinend unterliegen1 ,amboss oder ,hammer sein4#e ,next he proceeds to quote from ,felix ,dahn3-- ,seitdem ist's freudig ,germanenrecht ,mit dem ,hammer ,land zu erwerben4 ,wir sind von des ,hammergottes ,geschlecht1 ,und wollen sein ,weltreich erben4#f ,then1 on the same page1 only four lines lower down1 he remarks plaintively3--,foreign1 and especially ,french1 diplomacy is now industriously spreading the calumny that the ,german ,government and the ,german people are given to rattling the sabre1 and that we want to use for aggressive ends the increased armament which has been forced upon us4 ,is it mere hostile prejudice to hold that his own poetical selections give a certain colour to the calumny8 ,most of the ,german attacks on ,england will be found1 in the last analysis1 to rest on this quaint habit of mind--the habit of assuming that1 no matter how hostile and threatening ,germany's words and deeds might be1 we had no right to do her the injustice of supposing that she meant anything by them4 ,we ought to have known that she was merely dissembling her love4 ,some readers may be disposed to regret that the great ,germanic trinity1 ,nietzsche-,treitschke-,bernhardi1 contribute so largely to my anthology4 ,in the first place1 it may be said1 we are tired of their names2 in the second place1 ,germans deny that they have had anything like the influence we attribute to them4 ,there is a certain validity in the first of these objections4 ,the constant recurrence of these three names is certainly a little tedious4 ,they are like a three-headed ,charles ,i--or a triplicate ,geibel4 ,i would gladly have omitted them had it been by any means possible4 ,but one might as well compile an ,old ,testament anthology and omit ,isaiah1 ,jeremiah1 and ,ezekiel4 ,for1 whatever the ,germans may say1 they are the major prophets of the new-,german spirit4 ,treitschke is the prophet of tribalism1 ,nietzsche of ruthlessness1 ,bernhardi of ambition4 ,it is absurd to say that they are not influential4 ,treitschke may have fallen somewhat out of fashion in the years immediately preceding the war1 but his spirit had permeated the political thought of a whole generation4 ,to the living influence of ,nietzsche there is a host of witnesses4 ,gerhart ,hauptmann1 near the beginning of the war1 averred that the cultured ,german soldier carried ,zarathustra1 along with ,faust and the ,bible1 in his knapsack4 ,nor was this an idle guess4 ,professor ,deissmann1 of ,berlin1 tells us that he enquired into the matter1 and learned from book-sellers that the books most in demand among soldiers were the ,new ,testament1 ,faust and ,zarathustra4 ,o4,a4,h4 ,schmitz1 in ,das wirkliche ,deutschland1 says of the ,german youth born in the 'seventies and early 'eighties that ,nietzsche was the lighthouse toward which their enthusiasm was directed4 ,prof4 ,wilhelm ,bousset1 of ,gttingen1 writes3 ,there is among us much unripe1 unclear ,nietzsche enthusiasm3 many a ,german ass has thrown the lion's skin of the great man round his shoulders1 and thinks he has thereby become a philosopher and prophet4 ,such testimonies could be multiplied indefinitely4 ,there is no question that ,nietzsche has been by far the greatest single force among the spiritual shapers of new-,germany4 ,it may be true that he did not intend his immoralism to be read literally as a guide to conduct--it may be true that1 in some of his most characteristic passages1 he knew himself to be talking reckless and dangerous nonsense 7that was his way of living dangerously7--but can we reasonably suppose that soldiers in a conquered country1 soldiers full of the belief that any opposition to ,germanism was in itself a crime 7see ,no4 #cdd71 paused to look beneath his surface eulogies of murder and lust for some esoteric meaning that may possibly underlie them8 ,can it be a mere coincidence that1 in the first war which ,germany has waged since ,nietzsche entered upon his apostolate of ruthlessness1 the ,german armies should have been animated1 to all appearance1 by a literal interpretation of his beast of prey ideal8 ,as for ,bernhardi1 whom some ,german writers profess never to have heard of until we began to talk about him in ,england1 one can only say that he is an ex-member of the ,great ,general ,staff1 and is probably a pretty faithful interpreter of the ideas prevalent in that not un-influential organization4 ,moreover1 his ,germany and the ,next ,war1 which appeared in the spring of #aiab1 ran through five editions at #f marks before that year was out1 and was then republished in a cheap and somewhat condensed popular edition under the title of ,our ,future4 ,reviewing this edition1 ,die ,post says that1 in its original form1 the book was received with the most serious attention in political and especially in military circles1 and adds that this cheaper reprint must now become a book for the people4 ,it is an error1 however1 to suppose that a writer's importance is to be measured solely by the influence he can be shown to have exerted4 ,a book or pamphlet may have had little or no active influence1 and may yet be a very illuminating symptom of the national frame of mind4 ,every book must be an effect before it can become a cause4 ,that ,treitschke1 ,nietzsche1 and ,bernhardi have been very efficient causes ,i see no reason to doubt2 but at any rate they are immensely significant effects of the psychological conditions of which ,i am here gathering up some random evidences4 ,it was a more difficult question to decide whether the lucubrations of ,herr ,houston ,stewart ,chamberlain came within my scope4 ,yet ,i had little hesitation in including him4 ,the fact that he is by birth an ,englishman does not make him any the less a characteristic and recognized mouthpiece of the new-,german spirit4 ,it may be objected that he caricatures it1 that he is more ,german than the ,germans4 ,that1 in the first place1 is impossible2 in the second place1 while we have many evidences that ,germans1 from the ,kaiser downward1 set a high value on ,herr ,chamberlain's writings1 we hear little or nothing of any protest against them as misrepresentations of ,deutschtum4 ,shall ,i be suspected of a quaint perversity of national prejudice if ,i say that ,herr ,chamberlain's war pamphlets are distinctly better reading than the great majority of their kind8 ,they are much more individual1 much less stereotyped and monotonous4 ,one finds in them an occasional idea that is not the common property of every man in the street4 ,it is generally 7not always7 a more or less crazy idea1 but one hails it as an oasis in the desert of blusterous commonplace4 ,the arrangement of my little jewel-heap was more difficult1 if less laborious1 than the ingathering4 ,many of my extracts1 perhaps most1 might with equal appropriateness have been ranged under any one of three or four rubrics4 ,thus my classification is at best rough and1 to some extent1 arbitrary4 ,there is1 however1 a certain reason in the sequence of headings4 ,the first section1 ,deutschland ber ,alles1 represents the badge of all the tribe--the characteristic which lies at the root of the whole mischief--,germany's colossal self-glorification1 self-adoration4 ,if there is anything like it in history1 it is unknown to me4 ,other nations may have been as vain1 but1 not having the printing-press so readily at command1 they gave their vanity less exuberant expression4 ,besides1 they may have had a sense of humour4 ,the manifestations of this foible 7if a thing of such tragic consequences can be called by such a name7 fall under certain sub-headings4 ,it was clear1 for instance1 that the vauntings of ,german ,kultur must have a compartment to themselves--likewise the assertions of a special relation to ,god1 the claims to the status of a ,chosen ,people1 and the comparisons1 direct and indirect1 between ,germany and ,christ4 ,having established1 by means of a cloud of witnesses1 the ruling passion of the national mind1 ,i present in the following section proofs of the ,ambitions in which this megalomania finds its natural utterance4 ,in the sections1 ,war-,worship1 ,ruthlessness and ,machiavelism1 are grouped evidences of the methods of force and fraud by which it was hoped that these ambitions were to be realized4 ,then1 in a final section1 ,i have assembled evidences of the inevitable corollary to morbid self-adoration--the boundless and almost equally unprecedented contempt and loathing for all adversaries1 but especially for ,england4 ,the great majority of my quotations are taken direct from the original sources1 the references being exactly given4 ,i was scrupulous on this point1 not only that the reader might be able to test the accuracy and fairness#g of my work1 but because ,i hoped that some one1 some day1 might be moved to republish the anthology in the original ,german4 ,one cannot but think that1 when the war-frenzy is over1 a brief retrospect of its extravagances may be salutary for the ,german spirit4 ,in a certain number of cases1 however1 ,i have not been able to give exact references1 because the originals have not been accessible to me4 ,this applies to my selections from three previous volumes of selections3 ,nippold's ,der ,deutsche ,chauvinismus1 ,andler's ,collection de documents sur le ,pangermanisme1 and ,bang's ,hurrah and ,halleluiah4 ,andler's excellent and scholarly method has1 however1 enabled me to place quotations from his collection to within a page or two4 ,thus1 if some very ,pan-,german utterance does not occur on the precise page ,i have indicated1 it will certainly be found on the preceding or on the following page4 ,italics in my text always represent italics1 or1 rather1 spaced type1 in the original2 but ,germans are very lavish in their use of spaced type1 and ,i have not always thought it necessary to reproduce this peculiarity4 ,points of exclamation1 unless enclosed in square brackets1 are the author's1 not mine4 ,i have almost always resisted the temptation to employ typographical devices to enhance the lustre of individual gems4 ,in the ,index of ,authors ,i have added to many names a brief note which will enable the reader to estimate the position of the different writers in the public life of ,germany4 ,in bringing together my material1 ,i have found valuable help in many quarters4 ,i should like especially to acknowledge my deep obligation to ,mr4 ,alexander ,gray for manifold aid and suggestion4 ,w4,a4 #fth ,december1 #aiaf4 ,,footnotes3 #a ,on the other hand1 the almost equally remarkable warning to recruits that they must be ready to shoot down their nearest and dearest at the ,all-,highest command1 is undoubtedly authentic4 #b ,in a pamphlet by ,professor ,a4 ,lasson1 entitled ,deutsche ,art und deutsche ,bildung1 the adjective deutsch occurs #bef times in #db pages--sometimes #ac times in one page1 often #aj or #aa times--and always1 of course1 with a sort of unctuous implication that human language contains no higher term of eulogy4 ,this enumeration does not include the constantly recurring deutsch in ,deutschland1 nor the frequently repeated germanisch and teutonisch4 #c ,it may1 of course1 be possible to find many passages in which ,english writers say that1 as a matter of history1 ,god1 or ,heaven1 or ,providence1 has given the ,british race great possessions throughout the world--a fact which the ,germans are the first to admit and resent4 ,but this is totally different from claiming a ,divine mission to rule1 or to civilize1 or to heal the world4 #d ,das ,deutsche ,volk in schwerer ,zeit1 by ,r4,h4 ,bartsch1 p4 #aah4 #e ,thou must mount and win1 thou must triumph in victory or else sink into subjection--thou must be either anvil or hammer4 #f ,since then 'tis the joyous ,german right with the hammer to win land4 ,we are of the race of the ,hammer-,god1 and mean to inherit his world-empire4 ,this poem appeared in #ahgh1 was reprinted by the author in #aijj1 in a selection from his own works1 and is quoted in ,deutsche ,geschichte in ,liedern1 ,vol ,i41 p4 #aj4 ,the last two lines form the motto of ,otto ,richard ,tannenberg's ,gross-,deutschland3 die ,arbeit des #bj ,jahrhunerts4 #g ,it will be found by any one who puts the matter to the test that in no case is there any unfairness in taking these brief extracts out of their context4 ,the context is almost always an aggravating rather than an extenuating circumstance4 ,i ,,deutschland ,,ber ,,alles ,i ,,deutschland ,,ber ,,alles ,german ,humility4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #a4 ,no people ever attains to national consciousness without over-rating itself4 ,the ,germans are always in danger of enervating their nationality through possessing too little of this rugged pride4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #ai4 ,for further testimonies to ,german humility see ,nos4 #ag1 #bj1 #bc1 #cf1 #ea1 #ajf1 #abb1 #bjf1 #bjf;b1 #cid4 #b4 ,the ,german people must rise as a master-folk above the inferior peoples of ,europe and the primitive peoples of the colonies4--,g4,u4,m41 p4 #h4 #b;a4 ,the ,german people is always right1 because it is the ,german people1 and numbers #hg million souls4--,o4,r4 ,,tannenberg1 ,g4,d41 p4 #bca4 #c4 ,the ,french1 under ,napoleon1 wanted to sacrifice the whole world to their insatiable thirst for glory1 and the ,english treat every barrier opposed to their hunger for exploitation as a challenge to their superiority4 ,great is the gulf that separates these cupidities from the hitherto unrivalled moral elevation of the sense of honour in the ,german people4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #bbj 7#aija74 ,compare ,section ,v41 ,machiavelism4 #d4 ,my soul is heavy when ,i see the many enemies surrounding ,germany4444 ,and my thoughts fly forward into the far future1 and ask1 ,will there ever be a time when there is no more ,germany8 444 ,how poor and empty would the rich world then become6 ,then all men would ask themselves1 ,how comes it that the peoples no longer understand each other8 ,whither has that great1 serene power departed1 that brought near the souls of the peoples1 each to each8 ,who has shattered the marvellous mirror from which the countenance of the world was thoughtfully reflected8 ,then they would strike their heads and their breasts in despair1 crying3 ,we have criminally robbed ourselves of our wealth6 ,the world1 the great1 rich world1 has grown waste1 poor1 and empty3 the world has no longer a soul1 she has no longer a ,germany6--,e4 v4 ,,wildenbruch 7#ahhi71 quoted in ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #ab4 #e4 ,the proud conviction forces itself upon us with irresistible power that a high1 if not the highest1 importance for the entire development of the human race is ascribable to this ,german people4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #gb4 #f4 ,the ,german is a hero born1 and believes that he can hack and hew his way through life4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #bcj4 #g4 ,we are still child-like in our inmost feelings1 innocent in our pleasures1 simple in our inclinations1 in spite of individual aberrations2 we are still prolific1 and our race multiplies1 so that our own soil has long been insufficient to support us all4 ,it is therefore doubly imperative for us to remain heroes1 for who knows whether the ,germanic migrations are destined to remain isolated phenomena in history6 ,the peoples around us are either overripe fruits which the next storm may bring to the ground1 such as the ,turks1 ,greeks1 ,spaniards1 ,portuguese1 and a great part of the ,slavs2 or they are1 indeed1 proud of their race1 but senile and artificial in their ,kultur1 slow in their increase and boundless in their ambition1 like the ,french2 or1 confident in the unassailability of their country1 like the ,english and the ,americans1 they have forgotten justice and made their selfishness the measure of all things4 ,who knows whether we ,germans are not the rod predestined for the chastening of these degeneracies1 who knows whether we may not again1 like our fathers in dim antiquity1 have to gird on our swords and go forth to seek dwelling-places for our increase8--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #aei 7#ahic74 #h4 ,we are distinguished from other nations by our honourable love for outspoken convictions1 which would make a cut-and-dried party system distasteful to us4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #adh4 #i4 ,the surest means of serving the ends of humanity is to work at the elaboration of our national personality1 and to develop the full strength of its crystalline radiance4--,f4 ,,bley1 ,w4,d4,d41 p4 #bc4 #aj4 ,we have forced ourselves1 though the last-comers1 the virtual upstarts1 between the ,states which have earlier gained their place1 and now claim our share in the dominion of the world1 after we have for centuries been paramount only in the realm of the intellect4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ac4 #aa4 ,why must teachers and schoolboys1 year out1 year in1 worry about the old ,greeks and ,romans8 ,to foster idealism in the young1 we are told6 ,but for that there is no need to go to ,rome and ,athens4 ,our ,german history offers us ideals enough1 and is richer in deeds of heroism than ,rome and ,athens put together4--,,general ,,keim1 at meeting of the ,german ,defence ,league1 ,cassel1 ,feb41 #aiac2 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #hb4 #ab4 ,history teaches us that supreme treasure of humanity1 ,german idealism1 can be preserved only in the stout bark of national development4--,f4 ,,bley1 ,w4,d4,d41 p4 #bc4 ,on ,idealism1 see also ,nos4 #de1 #bgf1 #ddb1 #dfd4 #ac4 ,a war fought and lost would destroy our laboriously gained political importance 444 would shake the influence of ,german thought in the civilized world1 and thus check the general progress of mankind in its healthy development1 for which a flourishing ,germany is the essential condition4 ,our next war will be fought for the highest interests of our country and of mankind4 ,this will invest it with importance in the world's history4 ,world-power or downfall6 will be our rallying-cry4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #aed4 #ad4 ,in our ,german people1 peaceful dispositions and war-like prowess are so happily mixed that in this respect no other people on the earth can rival us1 and none seems so clearly predestined to light humanity on the way to true progress4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #aeh 7#ahic74 #ae4 ,the ,latin has no feeling for the beauty of a forest2 when he takes his repose in it he lies upon his stomach1 while we rest upon our backs4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #bjf4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #af4 ,if we compare our time with the great eras of our fathers1 we are perfectly capable of a sober self-criticism4 ,we have no use for illusions and self-deceptions on the way to our indispensable victory4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,meinecke1 ,d4,d4,e41 p4 #aj4 #ag4 ,where in the whole world can a people be found who have such cause for manly pride as we8 ,but we are equally far removed from presumption and from arrogance4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #aag4 #ah4 ,as the ,german bird1 the eagle1 hovers high over all the creatures of the earth1 so also should the ,german feel that he is raised high above all other nations who surround him1 and whom he sees in the limitless depth beneath him4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #adc4 #ai4 ,germany is our existence1 our faith1 the meaning and depth of the world4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #hd4 #bj4 ,it is not only our enemies who1 by their underground intrigues1 have sought to divert from us the sympathies of other peoples4 ,if we would speak frankly1 we must admit that we ourselves are partly to blame in the matter4 ,a great part of the blame is due to our insufficient self-esteem and self-valuation--an inveterate ,german failing4--,,prof4 ,,dr4 ,r4 ,,jannasch1 ,w4,d4,u4,s41 p4 #bb4 #ba4 ,germany is the future of humanity4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gh4 #ba;a4 ,god defend the noble cause of ,deutschtum4 ,there is no other hope for the future of humanity4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 in ,hamburger ,nachrichten1 ,september1 #aiad4 #ba;b4 ,we must vanquish1 because the downfall of ,germanism would mean the downfall of humanity4--,six ,war ,sermons1 by ,,pastor ,k4 ,k,,nig1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ii4 #bb4 ,when the ,german stands leaning on his mighty sword1 clad in steel from top to toe1 whosoever will may1 down below1 dance round his feet--they may rail at him and throw mud at him1 as the intellectuals 444 of ,england1 ,france1 ,russia and ,italy are now doing--in his lofty repose he will not allow himself to be disturbed1 and will only reflect as did his ancestors4 ,oderint dum metuant4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #aca4 #bc4 ,we will not conceal from ourselves that these victories for which our bells ring and our flags wave1 and for which we thank our ,god1 may become a danger to us1 should they make us vain and arrogant1 boastful and indolent6 ,god forbid6 ,we will hold fast to our old modesty1 with which we have so often been reproached1 and which has indeed often enough degenerated into the undervaluing of ourselves and overvaluing of that which is foreign and despicable4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #ec4 #bd4 ,we must develop1 not into ,europeans1' but into ever higher ,germans4444 ,what sort of a ,european would be formed by a mixture of the heroic ,german with the calculating ,englishman8 ,if the result was a man who thought half calculatingly and half heroically1 it would be an exaltation for the ,englishman1 but a degradation for the ,german4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #abe4 #be4 ,if we come victorious out of this war1 we shall be the first people on the earth1 a rich stream of gold will pour over our land1 and this greatness1 these riches1 may be a blessing to us if we always remember that true greatness1 true riches1 lie only in the possession of moral advantages1 and that to the fact of our possessing such advantages we owe our success4--,w4 ,,helm1 ,w4,w4,s4,m41 p4 #cc4 #bf4 ,do you not see1 ,albion1 that the ,german ,michel1#h on whom you looked down with such contempt1 is now transformed into the ,archangel ,michael1 and1 encountering you with his flaming sword1 triumphs over the race of the fallen angels and all the offspring of hell4--,f4 ,,delitzsch1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #ac1 p4 #ba4 #bg4 ,we must win1 because1 if we were defeated1 no one in the whole world could any longer cherish any remnant of belief in truth and right1 in the ,good1 or1 indeed1 in any higher ,power which wisely and justly guides the destinies of humanity4--,w4 ,,helm1 ,w4,w4,s4,m41 p4 #h4 #bh4 ,every great artistic achievement of ,france and ,italy since the time of the ,romans can be traced to families and classes with a strong mixture of ,german blood1 and1 especially in earlier times1 to the descendants of ,germanic stocks1 who had kept their blood1 or at any rate their nature 7,art7 pure4--,h4,a4 ,,schmid1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #be1 p4 #ba4 #bi4 ,germany is precisely--who would venture to deny it--the representative of the highest morality1 of the purest humanity1 of the most chastened ,christianity4 ,he1 therefore1 who fights for its maintenance1 its victory1 fights for the highest blessings of humanity itself1 and for human progress4 ,its defeat1 its decline1 would mean a falling back to the worst barbarism4--,war ,sermons1 by ,,pastor ,h4 ,,francke1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #fh4 #cj4 ,no nation in the world can give us anything worth mentioning in the field of science or technology1 art or literature1 which we would have any trouble in doing without4 ,let us reflect on the inexhaustible wealth of the ,german character1 which contains in itself everything of real value that the ,kultur of man can produce4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ace4 #ca4 ,we have in ,germany the best ,press in the world1 and are in that respect superior to all other countries4--,,prof4 ,a4,v4 ,,harnack1 ,w4,w4,s4,g41 p4 #ai4 #cb4 ,germany's fight against the whole world is in reality the battle of the spirit against the whole world's infamy1 falsehood1 and devilish cunning4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ha4 #cc4 ,german patriotism strikes its deep roots into the fruitful soil of a heroic view of the world1 and around its crown there gleam the rays of the highest spiritual and artistic culture4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ga4 #cd4 ,this combination of clearness of purpose and heroic spirit of sacrifice was unknown in world-history before ,august1 #aiad4 ,not till then was the new ,german human being born4444 ,is this new creation to be the human being of the future8--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #ajc4 #ce4 ,verily it has long been an honour and a joy1 a source of renown and of happiness1 to be a ,german--the year #aiad has made it a title of nobility4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #acc4 #cf4 ,when ,luther1 in the domain of religion1 characterized as unevangelical the conception of merit and reward1 and energetically banished the huckster-spirit from religious feeling1 he opened to the ,german thought the widest possibilities of victory4444 ,a specially ,germanic way of feeling1 a ,germanic modesty and distinction of thought1 was here powerfully promoted by means of the ,gospel4 ,true distinction is always modest1 in the sense of being unobtrusive and not bragging of deserts6--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #ef4 #cg4 ,since the great ,german ,renaissance of the new humanism1 the ,hellenic has become the truly ,german4444 ,as the ,peloponnesian ,war divided the ,states of ,hellas into two camps1 so this war has divided the ,states of ,europe4 ,but this time it will be ,athens and her spiritual power that will conquer4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #dj4 #ch4 ,after the conclusive victories for which we may confidently hope 444 the whole habitable earth will far more than hitherto bend its gaze upon us1 to marvel at 7anzustaunen7 our standard-setting artistic achievements4--,g4,e4 ,,pazaurek1 ,p4,k4,u4,k41 p4 #bc4 #ci4 ,a theory of the origin of species remained in ,england a series of isolated observations1 which pointed to certain conjectures2 in ,germany it was transformed with resolute daring into an all-embracing whole4 ,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #cc4 #dj4 ,never have ye seen a strong people and ,empire in whiter garments of peace4 ,we offered you palm branches1 we offered you justice1 ye offered us envy and hate4--,j4 ,,hort1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ea4 #da4 ,take heed that ye be counted among the blessed1 who show declining ,england1 depraved ,belgium1 licentious ,france1 uncouth ,russia1 the unconquerable youthful power and manhood of the ,german people1 in a manner never to be forgotten4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #aca4 #db4 ,we may be sure that our ,french adversaries1 when at ,metz and ,st4 ,quentin our hosts hurled themselves upon them1 saw above us in the clouds the ,germans of #ahgj1 and even the ,prussians of #ahac1 once more swooping down upon them1 and shuddered at the spectacle4 ,and1 in spite of all the boasting of ,sir ,john ,bull1 our cousins from beyond the sea must long ago have recognized that it is better to fight with ,prussians against the ,french1 than vice versa4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #a1 p4 #bi4 #dc4 ,he who1 in these days1 sets forth to defend the ,german hearth1 sets forth in a holy fight 444 in which one stakes life itself1 this single1 sweet1 beloved life1 for the life of a whole nation1 a nation which is ,god's seed-corn for the future4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gh4 #dd4 ,our enemies are fighting us in order to restore to the world the freedom1 the ,kultur1 which we threaten4 ,what monstrous mendacity6 ,reproduce if you can the ,german national school teacher1 the ,german upper-master1 the ,german university professor6 ,you have lagged far behind us1 you are hopelessly inferior6 ,hence your chagrin1 your envy1 your fear6 ,powerless to rival us1 you foam with hate and rage1 you make unblushing calumny your weapon1 and would like to exterminate us1 to wipe us off the face of the earth1 in order to free yourselves from your burden of shame4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #ch4 #de4 ,we take refuge in our quite peculiar idealism1 and dream--alas1 aloud6--of our ideal mission for the saving 7,heil7 of mankind4 ,foreign countries turn away enraged from such unheard-of self-glorification and are quite certain that1 behind the high-sounding words1 the arrogance of ,prussian militarism is concealed4--,h4 v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,g4,z4,k41 p4 #fd4 #df4 ,the future must lead ,france once again to our side1 we will heal it of its aberrations1 and1 in brotherly subordination to us1 it may share with us the task of guiding the fate of the world4444 ,as we feel ourselves free from hatred toward the kindred ,kultur-people of ,france1 we have taken up the gauntlet with ,teutonic pride1 and we will use our weapons so that the admiration of the world1 and of our enemies themselves1 shall be accorded to us4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #bf4 #dg4 ,when we were attacked1 our ,german wrath awakened1 and when we could not but recognize in the attack a long-plotted treason against our love of peace1 our wrath became fierce and wild4 ,then1 no doubt1 some of us spoke1 in our first excitement1 of hatred2 but this was a misinterpretation of our feeling4 ,seeing ourselves hated1 we imagined that hate must be answered with hate2 but our ,german spirit 7,gemt7 was incapable of that passion4 ,lienhard rightly 444 deplores the form of the popular ,hymn of ,hate against ,england1 which1 characteristically enough1 proceeds from a poet of ,jewish race4--,h4 v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,g4,z4,k41 p4 #fh4 #dh4 ,under the protection of the greatest of armies1 we have laboured at scientific1 social1 and economic progress2 our enemies trusted to the rule of force and to chatter4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #dd4 #di4 ,work as untiringly as we1 think with as much energy1 and we will welcome you as equals at our side4444 ,imitate us and we will honour you4 ,seek to constrain us by war1 and we will thrash you to annihilation1 and despise you as a robber pack4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #ch4 ,the ,gentle ,german4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #ej4 ,the ,german ,army 7in which ,i of course include the ,navy7 is to-day the greatest institute for moral education in the world4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #gh4 #ea4 ,it is true that the breast of every soldier swelled with a noble pride at the thought that he was privileged to wear the ,german uniform1 which history has made a garb of honour above all others2 but as for arrogance1 not one of them1 thank ,god1 was capable of the stupidity which alone can engender it4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #cb4 #eb4 ,from all sides testimonies are flowing in as to the noble manner in which our troops conduct the war4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #abd4 #eb;a4 ,we thank our ,german ,army that it has kept spotless the shield of humanity and chivalry4 ,it is true we believe that every bone of a ,german soldier1 with his heroic heart and immortal soul1 is worth more than a cathedral4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,kahl1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #f1 p4 #e4 #eb;b4 ,we see everywhere how our soldiers respect the sacred defencelessness of woman and child4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #a1 p4 #bc4 #eb;c4 ,the ,german soldiers alone are thoroughly disciplined1 and have never so much as hurt a hair of a single innocent human being4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #fi4 #ec4 ,the depth of the ,german spirit displays itself also in respect for morality and discipline4444 ,how often1 in these days1 has the ,german soldier been subjected to the temptation to treat the inhabitants of foreign countries with violence and brutality4 ,but everywhere he has obeyed the law1 and shown that even in war he knows how to distinguish between the enemy to be crushed and defenceless women and children4 ,the officials and clergy of conquered territory have frequently borne express testimony to this fact4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #eg4 #ed4 ,the losses we suffer are--even if the losses of the enemy were ten times more numerous--infinitely greater in value and infinitely more painful4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #h4 #ed;a4 ,one single highly cultured ,german warrior1 of those who are1 alas6 falling in thousands1 represents a higher intellectual and moral life-value than hundreds of the raw children of nature 7,naturmenschen7 whom ,england and ,france1 ,russia and ,italy1 oppose to them4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #cf4 #ed;b4 ,when one of our ships has to sink1 its going-down is even more glorious than a victory4--,,prof4 ,u4 v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 pt4 iii41 p4 #dh4 #ee4 ,where ,german soldiers had to seize the incendiary torch1 or even to proceed to the slaughter of citizens1 it was only in pursuance of the rights of war1 and for protection in real need4 ,had they obeyed the dictates of their hearts1 they would rather have shared their soup and bread with the defenceless foe4444 ,this spirit of humanity we will preserve and cherish to the end4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,kahl1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #f1 p4 #e4 #ef4 ,lastly1 we must not forget the ,german humour4444 ,it sometimes proceeds from a firm faith in ,god1 sometimes from a cheerful optimism1 always from a serenity of spirit which nothing can disturb4 ,thus ,german soldiers out in the field1 the moment there is a pause in the fighting1 set about trying to ride on the camel which they have taken from the ,zouaves4444 ,so1 too1 a non-commissioned officer1 during a fight1 admonishes a soldier3 ,shoot quietly1 ,kowalski1 shoot quietly6 ,you'll frighten away the whole ,french ,army of the ,north with your confounded banging6--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #ei4 #eg4 ,apart from the fighting quality of these troops1 their peaceful work behind all the fronts bears witness to a thorough spiritual culture 7,bildung7 and a living organization such as the world has never seen1 and this again indicates an average level of culture in all grades--of spiritual development and moral responsibility--to which no people in the world can show anything in the smallest degree comparable4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,d4,z41 p4 #ai4 #eh4 ,even when1 for once1 a ,latin writer is favourably disposed towards ,germany 444 he can see in what moves his admiration nothing but animal vitality4 ,this terrible ,germany1 he says1 like a wonderful beast of the jungle1 springs upon all its foes and fixes its fangs in them4 ,how sadly he here misinterprets the nature of ,german heroism6--,g4 ,,misch1 ,v4,g4,d4,k41 p4 #i4 #ei4 ,it is characteristic that our cruiser ,wilhelm der ,grosse1 in order to spare the women and children on board1 let an ,english merchant ship pass unharmed1#i which by ,international ,law it has the right to sink 444 and then come ,messieurs the ,english and repay this act of magnanimity by sinking the same cruiser in a neutral harbour1 contrary to all ,international ,law4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #a1 p4 #bc4 #fj4 ,the absence of any sort of animosity towards other people is a striking characteristic of the ,germans--and of the ,germans alone4#aj--;,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ab4 ,see also ,no4 #dig4 ,the ,great ,misunderstood4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #fa4 ,it has been said that it is un-,german to wish to be only ,german4 ,that again is a consequence of our spiritual wealth4 ,we understand all foreign nations2 none of them understands us1 and none of them can understand us4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ace4 #fb4 ,the historian and economist ,sombart has said3 ,we understand all foreign nations1 no foreign nation understands or can understand us4 ,in these words he rejects all community of ,kultur with other peoples1 and especially the so-called ,western ,european ,ideas4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #abd4 #fc4 ,in the world of the spirit1 the victory of ,german thought seemed already almost decided4 ,for it was able to comprehend the others1 but they could not comprehend it4--,g4 ,,misch1 ,v4,g4,d4,k41 p4 #ai4 #fd4 ,we are still the most wide-hearted and receptive of people1 a people that cannot live if it does not make its own the spiritual values of the other peoples4 ,we can already say that we know the outer world better than they know us4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,meinecke1 ,d4,d4,e41 p4 #ce4 #fe4 ,whole-hearted understanding for another people can be fully attained only by treason to one's own nature1 to one's own national personality4 ,that is what makes the renegade so hateful1 and those unpatriotic half-men1 the intellectuals and sthetes4--,,prof4 ,m4 ,v4 ,,gruber1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #cj1 p4 #ad4 #ff4 ,the ,german is docile and eager to learn4 ,his interest embraces everything1 and most of all what is foreign4 ,he is disposed to admire everything foreign and to underrate what is his own4 ,with foreigners it is just the other way4 ,we ,germans know about them1 but they know absolutely nothing about us4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #cd4 #fg4 ,apart from what ,professor ,larsen has said in ,denmark1 and ,dr4 ,gino ,bertolini in ,italy1 about ,german militarism 444 we may designate as nonsense everything that foreigners1 in low or in high estate1 have recently said on this subject4 ,this is a new proof of the fact that foreigners cannot understand us1 apart from a few outstanding personalities whom a kind fate has borne aloft to the heights of the ,german spirit4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #hb4 ,see also ,nos4 #acf-ade4 ,kultur4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #fh4 ,the ,kultur of the ,germans ,germanen is actually the stimulus to our present ,european ,civilization with which we are conquering the world4--,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #ca4 #fi4 ,germanism1 when it rightly understands itself1 and remains true to its nature1 is childlike and manlike1 at once tender and strong1 full of genuinely human simplicity1 and therefore of irreplaceable value to ,kultur4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #bg 7#ahij74 #gj4 ,the champions of the so-called race-idea are clear as to the importance of the ,germanic race for our civilization and ,kultur4444 ,their meritorious work has converted the dim divinings of instinct into the certainty of knowledge2 and yet a sense of oppression steals upon us when we think of what still remains to be done 7as they all agree7 against a hostile world in arms1 both of the flesh and of the spirit--a world of treachery and hypocrisy1 of error and of fanaticism1 of stupidity and of craft4--,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #ej4 #gj;a4 ,kultur is best promoted when the strongest individual ,kultur1 that of a given nation1 enlarges its field of activity at the expense of the other national ,kulturs4 ,if we one day come into conflict with the ,martians1 then humanity--all the peoples of the earth--will have common interests3 but not until then4--,k4 ,,wagner1 ,k41 p4 #df4 #ga4 ,i cannot accept the definition of ,kultur which identifies it with form1 with the harmonious rhythm which1 in the ,english1 for example1 permeates and unifies everything1 from the highest spiritual life to clothes1 footwear and table manners4444 ,i am of opinion that we shall apply to this care for form1 for rhythm1 and whatever results from it1 the name of civilization1 reserving the nobler word ,kultur for higher values1 and that we should look to our army and the corps of officers to endow us with1 and educate us in1 these higher values4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #bag 7#aija74 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #gb4 ,our belief is that the salvation of the whole ,kultur of ,europe depends upon the victory which ,german militarism is about to achieve4--,manifesto signed by #c1ejj ,hochschullehreren 7professors and lecturers71 quoted by ,,prof4 ,u4 v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 pt4 ii1 p4 #cc4 #gc4 ,if ,fate has selected us to assume the leadership in the ,kultur-life of the peoples1 we will not shrink from this great and lofty mission4--,g4,e4 ,,pazaurek1 ,p4,k4,u4,k41 p4 #bc4 #gd4 ,at bottom we ,germans are fighting for the same thing which the ,greeks defended against the ,persians1 the ,romans against the ,carthaginians and ,egyptians1 the ,franks against ,islam3 namely1 the chivalrous ,european way of thinking1 which is ever being threatened by brutal force and puling baseness4 ,we stand once more at a watershed of ,kultur4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #aai4 #ge4 ,if we are beaten--which ,god and our strong arm forbid--all the higher ,kultur of our hemisphere1 which it was our mission to guard1 sinks with us into the grave4--,,prof4 ,a4 v4 ,,harnack1 ,i4,m41 #ast ,october1 #aiad1 p4 #bf4 #gf4 ,that it will be ,german ,kultur that will send forth its rays from the centre of our continent1 there can be no possible doubt4--,,prof4 ,o4 v4 ,,gierke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #b1 p4 #ai4 #gg4 ,we are indeed entrusted here on earth with a doubly sacred mission3 not only to protect ,kultur 444 against the narrow-hearted huckster-spirit of a thoroughly corrupted and inwardly rotten commercialism 7,jobbertum71 but also to impart ,kultur in its most august purity1 nobility and glory to the whole of humanity1 and thereby contribute not a little to its salvation4--,,ein ,,deutscher1 ,w4,k4,b4,m41 p4 #dj4 #gh4 ,germany has neglected the highest duty of every ,kultur-,state--to carry its ,kultur into foreign parts1 and to win the confidence and affection of other peoples4--,f4 v4 ,,liszt1 ,e4,m4,s41 p4 #ab4 #gi4 ,the idea of the exclusive justification of one's own ,kultur which is innate in the ,french and ,english1 is foreign to us4 ,but we are conscious of the incomparable value of ,german ,kultur1 and will for the future guard it against being adulterated by less valuable imports4 ,we do not force it upon any one1 but we believe that its own inner greatness will everywhere procure it the recognition which is its due4--,,prof4 ,o4 v4 ,,gierke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #b1 p4 #be4 #hj4 ,the more ,german ,kultur remains faithful to itself1 the better will it be able to enlighten the understanding of the foreign races absorbed1 incorporated into the ,empire1 and to make them see that only from ,german ,kultur can they derive those treasures which they need for the fertilizing of their own particular life4--,,prof4 ,o4 ,v4 ,,gierke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #b1 p4 #ai4 #ha4 ,we will not in the future let foreign idols be forced upon us1 but will serve our own ,gods4--,,prof4 ,,rudolf ,,eucken1 ,i4,m41 #ast ,october1 #aiad1 p4 #gd4 #hb4 ,germanism was for several decades1 in spite of the mighty and over-towering height of its ,kultur1 hindered in the imparting of this ,kultur to other nations4 ,in the first years after the war of #ahgj this was not painfully felt1 as a powerful exchange of ,kultur was still in progress between different parts of the ,german ,empire4444 ,but when this exchange of ,kultur between the ,german stocks had run its course1 and the ,germanization of the frontier districts ,poland1 ,alsace had reached its limit1 then the spiritual need of the ,german victor and conqueror began to make itself felt4 ,he became a teacher without scholars1 he had no longer an audience4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #aa4 ,see also ,no4 #bce;a4 #hc4 ,our ,german ,kultur has1 in its unique depth1 something shrinking and severe 7,sprdes und ,herbes71 it does not obtrude itself1 or readily yield itself up2 it must be earnestly sought after and lovingly assimilated from within4 ,this love#aa was lacking in our neighbours2 wherefore they easily came to look upon us with the eyes of hatred4--,,prof4 ,r4 ,,eucken1 ,i4,m41 #ast ,october1 #aiad1 p4 #gd4 #hd4 ,and the graves which border the path to glory of the ,romans1 the ,germans1 the ,british and the ,french1 the stench of robbery1 plunder and theft which hangs around these millions of graves8 ,must ,kultur rear its domes over mountains of corpses1 oceans of tears1 and the death-rattle of the conquered8 ,,yes1 ,,it ,,must6 ,there follows an image too grotesquely indecent to be quoted4 ,either one denies altogether the beneficent effect of ,kultur upon humanity1 and confesses oneself an ,arcadian dreamer1 or one allows to one's people the right of domination--in which case the might of the conqueror is the highest law of morality1 before which the conquered must bow4 ,v victis6--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #aj4 #he4 ,the whole of ,european ,kultur 444 is brought to a focus on this ,german soil and in the hearts of the ,german people4 ,it would be foolish to express oneself on this point with modesty and reserve4 ,we ,germans represent the latest and the highest achievement of ,european ,kultur4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #ac4 #hf4 ,the ,kultur-mission of a people is fulfilled when there are no longer any people of the same race and kindred to which their ,kultur has still to be imparted4444 ,our ,kultur-mission has in view some hundred millions of ,slavs1 and draws its geographical frontier-line at the ,ural ,mountains4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #ac4 #hg4 ,the attempt of ,napoleon to graft the ,kultur of ,western ,europe upon the empire of the ,muscovite ended in failure4 ,to-day history has made us ,germans the inheritors of the ,napoleonic idea4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #ag4 #hg;a4 ,it is perhaps the stupidest of the suspicions under which we labour that we aim at a world-empire after the ,roman fashion1 and wish to thrust our ,kultur on the conquered peoples4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,meinecke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #bi1 p4 #bf4 #hh4 ,we1 however1 will not let ourselves be diverted by all this hatred and envy from our striving towards a world-,kultur4 ,we will busily and cheerfully work on at the elevation of the whole human race4--,,prof4 ,r4 ,,eucken1 ,i4,m41 #ast ,october1 #aiad1 p4 #gd4 #hi4 ,more than a hundred years ago 7#ahjh7 ,johan ,gottlieb ,fichte1 in his ever-memorable ,speeches to the ,german ,nation1 proclaimed the ,german people to be the only people in ,europe which had preserved its primitive genuineness 7ursprngliche ,echtheit71 and therefore its spiritual creative faculty1 and found the transition from his previous cosmopolitan way of thinking to flaming national enthusiasm1 in the idea that this people was called to be the upholder of world-,kultur1 and that it was therefore its duty to humanity to look to its own preservation4--,,prof ,o4 v4 ,,gierke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #b1 p4 #bc4 #ij4 ,we claim only the free development of our individuality1 and are only fighting against the attempt to throttle it1 while contrariwise our enemies are conducting an aggressive war1 which they have to disguise as a ,kultur-war in order to make it appear defensive4--,,pastor ,e4 ,,troeltsch1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #bg1 p4 #bg4 #ia4 ,the highest steps of ,kultur have not been mounted by peaceable nations in long periods of peace1 but by warlike peoples in the time of their greatest combativeness4--,r4 ,,theuden1 ,w4,m4,k4,b41 p4 #d4 #ib4 ,german ,kultur is moral ,kultur4 ,its superiority is rooted in the unfathomable depth of its moral constitution4 ,should it forfeit its moral purity1 it would cease to be ,german4--,,prof4 ,o4 ,v4 ,,gierke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #b1 p4 #bc4 #ib;a4 ,the further we can carry our ,kultur into the ,east1 the more1 and the more profitable1 outlets shall we find for our wares4 ,economic profit is of course not the main motive of our ,kultur-activity1 but it is no unwelcome by-product4--,c4,l4 ,,poehlmann1 ,g4,d4,w41 p4 #ce4 #ic4 ,the individual ,frenchman may fight as heroically as he pleases1 his cause is nevertheless lost1 because he does not believe that where the ,german element has never penetrated1 or has penetrated only to disappear again1 no development of ,kultur1 in the true sense of the word1 is possible4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #bf4 #id4 ,but what about ,louvain and ,rheims8 ,has not war1 the rude and ruthless destroyer1 trodden down glorious cities and priceless buildings that might claim to rank among the greatest ,kultur-treasures of humanity8 ,exactly the opposite may be said3 war has in these cases led the way to a really clear recognition of the value to humanity of these ,kultur-treasures6 ,the cry of indignation which went up against us had long before made itself heard in our own breasts in view of the thoughtlessness and indifference1 nay1 the frivolity with which these immeasurable values had been ruthlessly exposed to destruction by nations which have always plumed themselves excessively on their western ,kultur4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #ad4 #id;a4 ,the fury of our gunners at the enemy's unprincipled use of the cathedral of ,rheims as a means of defence1 was doubtless mingled with indignation and disgust at being compelled to do injury to a priceless work of art4 ,but no phrase-making stheticism1 thank ,god1 such as our neighbours cultivate1 rendered us untrue to the conviction that1 when all is said and done1 every drop of blood of the meanest of our brave soldiers is worth more than any individual work of artistic ,kultur4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #ad4 ,see also ,nos4 #g1 #cj1 #df1 #fb1 #aae1 #abc1 #aea1 #afj1 #ahf1 #ahg1 #bcb1 #bci;a1 #bdb1 #bdh;a1 #bfb-bfh4 ,der deutsche ,gott4#ab 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #ie4 ,if ,god is for us1 who can be against us8 ,it is enough for us to be a part of ,god4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gg4 #if4 ,we have become a nation of wrath2 we think only of the war4444 ,we execute ,god's ,almighty will1 and the edicts of ,his justice we will fulfil1 imbued with holy rage1 in vengeance upon the ungodly4 ,god calls us to murderous battles1 even if worlds should thereby fall to ruins4444 ,we are woven together like the chastening lash of war2 we flame aloft like the lightning2 like gardens of roses our wounds blossom at the gates of ,heaven4--,f4 ,,philippi1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #eb4 #ig4 ,the principle which the ,kaiser impressed on his soldiers lives in his own soul3 ,each must so do his duty that1 when he shall one day answer the heavenly bugle-call1 he may stand forth with a good conscience before his ,god and his old ,kaiser4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #ba4 ,compare ,no4 #bdg4 #ih4 ,thou who dwellest high in ,thy ,heaven1 above ,cherubim1 ,seraphim1 and ,zeppelins1 ,thou who art enthroned as a ,god of thunder in the midst of lightning from the clouds1 and lightning from sword and cannon1 send thunder1 lightning1 hail and tempest hurtling upon our enemy 444 and hurl him down to the dark burial-pits4--,battle ,prayer1 by ,,pastor ,d4 ,,vorwerk1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #dj4 #ii4 ,is the living ,god1 the ,god whom one can only have and understand in the spirit of ,jesus ,christ1 is ,he the ,god of those others8 ,no2 they serve at best ,satan1 the father of lies6--,war ,sermons1 by ,,pastor ,h4 ,,francke1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gb4 #ajj4 ,england is our worst enemy1 and we will fight her till we have overthrown her6 ,so may it please our ,great ,ally1 who stands behind the ,german battalions1 behind our ships and ,u-boats1 and behind our blessd militarism6--,e4 v4 ,,heyking1 ,d4,w4,e41 p4 #bc4 #aja4 ,the ,german soul is the world's soul1 ,god and ,germany belong to one another4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #hc4 #ajb4 ,on this planet1 as a result of millenniums of development1 has it come to this1 that ,germany--and in a wider sense ,germanism1 within and without the ,empire--has become an instrument of ,god1 an indispensable1 irreplaceable instrument of ,god8 ,this question ,i ask1 and ,i answer it in the affirmative4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,d4,z41 p4 #ae4 #ajc4 ,the ,french1 of course1 count on the possibility that ,germany may be weakened in the further course of the war1 and at last beaten by the ,russian ,army and the ,english ,fleet4 ,this we do not believe1 because we know ,germany and hold the alliance between ,providence and our people to be a matter of necessity4--,f4 ,,naumann1 ,member of the ,reichstag1 ,d4,u4,f41 p4 #ai4 #ajd4 ,the difficult ,christian commandment1 ,love your enemies1 is nowhere more easily obeyed than in war6 ,there is much talk about hate against ,england4 ,but how do our warriors greet each other8 ,gott strafe ,england6 ,they thus invoke ,god1 but not the ,god of hatred1 of vengeance1 but the ,god of justice4 ,it is the just ,god at whose hands we hope for the punishment of the unjust man or nation4--,h4 v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,g4,z4,k41 p4 #ai4 #aje4 ,it might come to pass that we succumbed in this fight of righteousness and purity against falsehood and deceit4 ,that could only happen1 ,i am sure1 over the dead body of the last ,german--but should it happen1 ,i assert that we should all die happy in the consciousness of having defended ,god against the world4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gi4 #ajf4 ,we are beginning slowly1 humbly1 and yet with a deep gladness1 to divine ,god's intentions4 ,it may sound proud1 my friends1 but we are conscious that it is also in all humbleness that we say it3 the ,german soul is ,god's soul3 it shall and will rule over mankind4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #hc4 #ajg4 ,the ,german ,god is not only the theme of some of our poets and prophets1 but also a historian like ,max ,lenz has1 with fiery tongue and in deep thankfulness1 borne witness to the revelation of the ,german ,god in our holy war4 ,the ,german1 the national1 ,god6444 ,has war in this case impaired1 or has it steeled religion8 ,i say it has steeled it4444 ,this is no relapse to a lower level1 but a mounting up to ,god ,himself4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,deissmann1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #i1 p4 #af4 #ajh4 ,extract from a letter#ac to ,chamberlain4 ,it is my firm belief that the country to which ,god gave ,luther1 ,goethe1 ,bach1 ,wagner1 ,moltke1 ,bismarck and ,william ,i41 has still a great mission before it1 to work for the welfare of humanity4 ,god has put us to a hard probation 444 that we may the better serve as ,his instrument for the saving of mankind2 for we were on the point of becoming untrue to our old-established nature 7,wesen74 ,he who has imposed upon us this ordeal will also help us out of it4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,d4,z41 p4 #ac4 #aji4 ,what a difference is there between armies1 one of which carries its ,god in its heart1 whilst the others think they can conquer by the weight of their numbers1 by cunning tricks of devilish cruelty1 by shameless contempt for the provisions of ,international ,law4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #aba4 #aaj4 ,even the ,crusaders with their cry of ,god wills it6 were not so penetrated by the ,christian spirit as our warriors whose motto is1 ,as ,god will6--,h4 v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,g4,z4,k41 p4 #ai4 #aaa4 ,ortelsburg und ,gilgenburg1 ,dazu als ,sieger ,hindenburg1 ,das sind der ,burgen drei1 ,die vierte1 die ist auch dabei3 ,die macht der ,feinde ,tun zu ,spott1 ,ein' feste ,burg ist unser ,gott4 ,translation3 ,ortelsburg and ,gilgenburg two places in ,east ,prussia with victory for ,hindenburg--that makes three ,burgs in all4 ,nor is a fourth ,burg wanting3 one that puts to shame the efforts of our enemies3 for ,ein' feste ,burg ist unser ,gott4--,quoted by ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #hb4 #aab4 ,on us ,germans the eye of ,god1 we take it1 must especially rest in this war3 we must be ,his ultimate purpose4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #hi4 #aac4 ,for a just cause1 the ,german is ready to sacrifice life1 blood1 gold and goods4 ,once more1 as of old1 ,david goes forth against ,goliath4 ,the ,german people says with ,david3 ,thou comest to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin2 but ,i come to thee in the name of the ,lord of ,hosts1 in the name of faith1 right and truth4 ,great is his might who has these powers on his side2 for the living ,god stands behind him4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #fe4 #aad4 ,the kingdom of ,god must now assert itself against the kingdom of all that is base1 evil and vile3 the kingdom of light against the kingdom of darkness4 ,against a world of superhuman evil 444 the power of superhuman justice1 truth and love goes out to battle4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #abe4 #aae4 ,one thing1 ,i think1 is clear1 ,god must stand on our side4 ,we fight for right and truth1 for ,kultur and civilization1 and human progress1 and true ,christianity1 against untruthfulness and hypocrisy and falseness1 and un-,kultur and barbarism and brutality4 ,all human blessings1 aye1 and humanity itself1 stand under the protection of our bright weapons4--,war ,sermons1 by ,,pastor ,h4 ,,francke1 quoted in ,h4 4 ,h41 p4 #fe4 #aaf4 ,there lurks in our people something of the ,god-consciousness which inspired the ,old ,testament prophets4 ,very childlike indeed1 but of far deeper meaning than he could guess1 was the saying of a little boy to his playmate at the outbreak of war3 ,i am not in the least afraid6 ,the good ,god will help us1 for he is ,german6--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #de4 ,see also ,nos4 #dc1 #ade1 #cab1 #caf4 ,the ,chosen ,people and its ,mission4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #aag4 ,he who does not believe in the ,divine mission of ,germany had better hang himself1 and rather to-day than to-morrow4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,d4,z41 p4 #ag4 #aah4 ,now we understand why the other nations pursue us with their hatred3 they do not understand us1 but they are sensible of our enormous spiritual superiority4 ,so the ,jews were hated in antiquity1 because they were the representatives of ,god on earth4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #adb4 #aai4 ,god has in ,luther practically chosen the ,german people1 and that can never be altered1 for is it not written in ,romans xi41 #bi1 ,for the gifts and calling of ,god are without repentance4--,,dr4 ,,preuss1#ad quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #bbc4 #abj4 ,i want first to make it clear in what sense we may say1 without extravagance or the least trace of self-exaltation3 ,germany is chosen4 ,germany is chosen1 for her own good and that of other nations1 to undertake their guidance4 ,providence has placed the appointed people1 at the appointed moment1 ready for the appointed task4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,p4,i41 p4 #be4 #aba4 ,there is a gospel saying which bursts the bonds of its original historical meaning and takes new wings in the storm of the world-war1 a saying which we may well take as the consecration of our ,german mission3 ,ye are the salt of the earth6 ye are the light of the world6#ae--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,deissmann1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 p4 #bd4 #abb4 ,it is no foolish over-valuation of ourselves1 no aggressive arrogance1 no want of humility1 when we more and more let ,bismarck's faith prevail within us1 that ,god has taken the ,german nation under ,his special care1 or in any case has some special purpose in view for it4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #hf4 #abc4 ,then a newly purified and newly strengthened ,german folk-soul would arise out of the war1 to new thoughts and new deeds1 to a new sense of its world-mission--that of imparting to the other peoples1 in a pure spirit1 the achievements of its ,kultur1 so that all lands may be filled with the glory of ,god4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #fc4 #abd4 ,as heralds of ,god's will1 messengers of ,his word1 witnesses of ,his benefactions to the world1 we shall take up our work after the war1 and with ,german endurance and ,german industry1 with ,german competence and ,german faithfulness1 with ,german faith and ,german piety1 we shall permeate1 in the name of ,god1 a world which has become poor and desolate4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #abh4 #abe4 ,when these storms have done their work1 ,germany's purest mission begins3 to become a place of refuge1 a holy grove for all the seekers of the earth1 a central land1 a land of wisdom1 a land of morals4--,f4 ,,lienhardt1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ea4 #abf4 ,the divination or the assurance of this special calling on the part of ,god has long been present to the best among the ,german people2 many quotations to this effect 7for example1 ,geibel's lines7 are to-day in everybody's mouth4 ,deeper thoughts are aroused by a less-known remark of ,richard ,wagner's3 ,a great mission1 scarcely comprehensible to other nations1 is unquestionably reserved for the whole ,german character 7,anlage72 this character he defines as the spirit of pure humanity1 and the mission of the ,germans as the ennoblement of the world4444 ,not to believe in this mission is folly1 is treason4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,d4,z41 p4 #ad4 #abg4 ,god's people will come forth from this war strengthened and crowned with victory1 because they stand on the side of ,god2 but all ,god's adversaries will find out that ,god will not be mocked1 and that ,he rules the history of the nations according to ,his will4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #acd4 #abh4 ,a good ,providence watches over the fate of the ,german people1 which is destined to the highest things on this earth4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #fg4 #abi4 ,brethren and sisters6 in a moment we 444 have become the heirs of ,israel1 the people of the ,old ,testament covenant4 ,we shall be the bearers of ,god's promises4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #aaf4 #acj4 ,as was ,israel among the heathen1 so is ,germany among the modern nations--the pious heart of ,europe4--,my ,german ,fatherland1 by ,,pastor ,,tolzien1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #acf4 #aca4 ,we hope that a great mission will be allotted to us ,germans 444 and this ,german mission is3 to look after the world 7zu sorgen fr die ,welt74 ,is it arrogance to write such a phrase8 ,is it vanity in the disguise of a moral idea8 ,no1 no1 and again no4--,,pastor ,g4 ,,traub1 ,d4,k4,u4,s41 p4 #bc4 #acb4 ,friedrich ,nietzsche was but the last of the singers and seers who1 coming down from the height of heaven1 brought to us the tidings that there should be born from us the ,son of ,god1 whom in his language he called the ,superman4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ec4 #acc4 ,verily the ,bible is our book4444 ,it was given and assigned to us1 and we read in it the original text of our destiny1 which proclaims to mankind salvation or disaster--according as we will it6--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #acd4 #acd4 ,we want to become a world-people4 ,let us remind ourselves that the belief in our mission as a world-people has arisen from our originally purely spiritual impulse to absorb the world into ourselves4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,meinecke1 ,d4,d4,e41 p4 #cg4 #ace4 ,germany is the centre of ,god's plans for the world4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gh4 ,see also ,nos4 #ge1 #gg1 #bci4 ,other ,peoples4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #acf4 ,we had greatly over-valued all other nations1 even the ,french4 ,the ,french are a people on the down grade4--,,the ,,kaiser1 to ,,herr ,a4 ,,fendrich1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ee4 #acg4 ,all the deep things3 courage1 patriotism1 faithfulness1 moral purity1 conscience1 the sense of duty1 activity on a moral basis1 inward riches1 intellect1 industry1 and so forth 6--no other nation possesses all these things in such high perfection as we do4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gf4 #ach4 ,fichte was right in calling us the people of the soul 7,gemt7 444 in the sense that the depth of feeling common to us ,germans has become a power controlling our activity and permeating our history1 to a degree unknown to any other people4 ,in this sense we have a right to say that we form the soul of humanity1 and that the destruction of the ,german nature 7,art7 would rob world-history of its deepest meaning4--,,prof4 ,r4 ,,eucken1 ,w4,b4,d4,g41 p4 #bc4 #aci4 ,bach1 ,goethe1 ,schiller1 ,beethoven1 these men signify for us a spiritual rebirth1 such as never happens to other peoples1 all of whom only grow old1 and can never become young again4--,h4 ,v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,g4,z4,k41 p4 #di4 #aci;a4 ,other peoples are young1 grow to maturity and then begin to age4444 ,we ,germans have often been old1 but1 thank ,god1 we have as often been quite young4444 ,how young do we not feel ourselves in contradistinction to these ,englishmen and ,frenchmen4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #a1 p4 #be4 #adj4 ,no other people1 not even the ,greeks1 have so understood childhood as the ,germans4 ,it is we who1 in the work of ,campe ,the ,swiss ,family ,robinson have created children's literature1#af and still hold the lead in that department2 it is we who provide the whole world with children's toys4 ,that is possible only because we have the power of identifying ourselves with the child-soul1 and this we could not do if we had not in our own innermost soul something childlike1 simple1 primitive4--,,prof4 ,r4 ,,eucken1 ,w4,b4,d4,g41 p4 #ac4 #ada4 ,the identical ring that we put into the singing of ,ein'feste ,burg ist unser ,gott and ,deutschland1 ,deutschland ber ,alles1 is something that cannot be found among the other peoples1 because they lack the freshness of national feeling1 because they are degenerate4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #fh4 #adb4 ,i look upon it as absolutely the deepest feature of the ,german character1 this passionate love of right1 of justice1 of morality4 ,this is something which the other nations have not got4--,on the ,german ,god1 by ,,pastor ,w4 ,,lehmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #gi4 #adc4 ,the period of political chaos a hundred years ago was a blessing for the ,germans1 who at that time were able to grow deep1 while other nations were growing superficial4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #abi4 #add4 ,our ,german peace is an essential factor in our ,kultur4 ,such a love of peace is itself of moral value1 but in the person of the ,kaiser it finds a consciously religious expression 444 and when the ,kaiser has to summon his people to a war which he has not willed1 there at once awakes in the whole people the religious spirit peculiar to itself1 of which the other peoples--unless it be the ,turks6--have no conception1 it matters not whether they have already dethroned ,dieu or have the ,lord forever in their mouths6--,h4 ,v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,d4,z4,k41 p4 #df4 #ade4 ,but this same ,demon of ,baseness1 who has subdued the other peoples1 was busily at work in ,germany as well3 ten years more1 and ,god would perhaps have found no one in the world to fight for him4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,d4,z41 p4 #aa4 ,see also ,nos4 #g1 #h1 #ad1 #ca1 #dd1 #cba4 ,christ4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #adf4 ,the soldier who spat in the face of the thorn-crowned ,saviour did not act more shamelessly than does ,england now4--,the ,true ,unity1 by ,,pastor ,,tolzien1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #adf4 #adg4 ,is there anyone who does not know why ,england declared war8 ,why8444 ,from jealousy4 ,from shopkeeper-spite4 ,because she wanted to earn the thirty pieces of silver4--,the ,world-,politics of ,england1 by ,,pastor ,g4 ,,tolzien1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #adc4 #adh4 ,we could draw many instructive parallels3 we could say that as ,jesus was treated so also have the ,german people been treated4--,war ,sermons1 by ,,pastor ,h4 ,,francke1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #fc4 #adi4 ,in this solemn hour1 when we lament over our dead heroes1 we experience1 more deeply than ever before1 the passion of our ,lord4444 ,is not ,germany itself transformed into a suffering ,christ8 ,we1 too1 have gone through our hour of trial on the ,mount of ,olives1 when with our ,kaiser we prayed that the cup of suffering might pass away from us2 and we1 too1 obeying the unfathomable will of ,god1 have begun to drain it4444 ,we1 too1 were betrayed by those to whom we had shown nothing but justice and kindness2 and around us1 too1 resounded1 in accents of hatred and envy1 the cry of ,crucify him6--,,pastor ,f4,x4 ,m,,nch1 reported by ,,sven ,,hedin1 ,with the ,german ,armies in the ,west1 p4 #ccf4 #aej4 ,we assert the view that 444 what once happened to ,luther is now happening to our people3 it is experiencing a repetition of the ,passion of ,christ4--,,dr4 ,,preuss1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #bjf4 #aea4 ,a hard and steep ,via ,crucis lies before the great benefactor and magnanimous liberator of the ,kultur-world1 the ,german people4 ,although it looks beyond the gloom of ,good ,friday to the dawn of ,easter morn1 beyond the dark days of war to the beacons of triumph--yet the cross still rests on its shoulders1 and the ,golgotha of the hardest decision still awaits it4--,,hofpr,,dikant ,,stipberger1 quoted in ,false ,witness 7,klokke ,roland71 p4 #ag4 #aeb4 ,it was the hidden meaning of ,god that ,he made ,israel the forerunner 7,vordeuter7 of the ,messiah1 and in the same way ,he has by ,his hidden intent designated the ,german people to be ,his successor4--,,dr4 ,,preuss1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #bad4 #aec4 ,german craving for truth and ,german strength of faith1 working along ,biblical paths1 have attained to the true faith1 the pure religiousness1 whose first and greatest spokesman is ,jesus ,christ4 ,thus the ,germans are the very nearest to the ,lord1 and may claim for themselves that they have continued ,his word4444 ,we fight1 then1 for ,christianity#ag as against degeneration and barbarism4444 ,god must be with us and victory ours4 ,this is guaranteed us by the truth of our nature1 which is as ,german as it is ,christian4--,war ,sermons1 by ,,pastor ,h4 ,,francke1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ga4 #aed4 ,a ,jesusless horde1 a crowd of the ,godless1 are in the field against us4444 ,may ,god surround us with ,his protection 444 since our defeat would also mean the defeat of ,his ,son in humanity4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #aai4 #aee4 ,the ,german people1 bearing forward in victory the ,evangel of the ,cross of ,christ1#ah is the great ,christophorus in the world of the nations4--,the ,christianity of the ,belligerent ,nations1 by ,,pastor ,f4 ,,erdmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #adh4 #aef4 ,let us rejoice that ,envy has risen up against us2 it only shows that ,god has exalted and richly blessed us4 ,think of ,him who was hanged on the ,cross and seemed forsaken of ,god1 and had to tread in such loneliness ,his path to victory4 ,my ,german people1 even if thy road be strewn with thorns and beset by enemies1 press onward1 full of defiance and confidence4444 ,thou and thy ,god1 ye are the majority4--,,pastor ,d4 ,,vorwerk1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ch4 #aeg4 ,kant and ,jesus go through our people1 seeking their disciples4--,,pastor ,g4 ,,traub1 ,d4,k4,u4,s41 p4 #bb4 #aeh4 ,we are fighting--thanks and praise be to ,god--for the cause of ,jesus within mankind4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #abf4 #aei4 ,christianity is possessed of potent spiritual energies1 since it inspires our minds1 not only with patience1 but also with dignified pride4 ,blessed are ye when men shall reproach you1 and persecute you1 and say all manner of evil against you falsely1 for my sake4 ,i quite understand ,friedrich ,naumann's declaration that this text has meant much to him in these days4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,deissmann1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #i1 p4 #bd4 #afj4 ,on the paths of commerce and intercourse1 we shall go forth to all nations1 and1 after the fierce fight is over1 carry ,jesus to them in the quiet1 peaceful work of a true ,kultur4 ,england1 in these paths1 has lowered herself to become a nation of hucksters1 who have long abandoned the service of ,god for that of ,mammon4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #acj4 #afa4 ,it is on account of its admirable qualities that ,germany has so many enemies4 ,friedrich v4 ,schiller says3 ,the world loves to blacken whatever is radiant and shining1 and to drag what is exalted in the dust4444 ,socrates had to drain the bowl of poison1 ,columbus was cast into fetters1 ,christ was nailed to the cross1--,,feldmarschalleutnant ,,franz ,,rieger1 quoted by ,,kr4 ,,nyrop1 ,er ,krig ,kultur8 7,copenhagen74 #afb4 ,the thief who expiated a sinful past by his repentance in the last hour1 and was outwardly subjected to the same suffering as our ,lord1 is the type of the ,turkish nation1 which now puts ,christianity 7outside ,germany7 to shame4--,,dr4 ,,preuss1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #baa4 ,see also ,nos4 #dbh1 #ddd4 ,die ,deutsche ,wahrheit 7,german ,truth74 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #afc4 ,the ,international ,lie-,press has risen up as a fourth ,great ,power against ,germany1 and deluges the world with lies against our magnificent and strictly moral 7sittenstrenges7 ,army1 and slanders everything that is ,german4 ,i propose that in the treaty of peace we should claim a special milliard as indemnity for lies4#ai--,,prof4 ,a4 v4 ,,harnack1 ,w4,w4,s4,g41 p4 #d4 #afd4 ,the ,germans demand truth1 even from orators4 ,it would be quite impossible to entangle the ,germans in a network of impudent lies1 as the other nations have been entangled4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,lasson1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #d1 p4 #bc4 #afe4 ,there was no war party in ,germany2 that is a ,times lie2 but there doubtless were responsible statesmen and soldiers who rightly said3 ,if ,england and her gang want war at any price1 then the sooner the better4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ac4 #aff4 ,the sailors of the ,british ,fleet are a gang of adventurers and criminals who serve only for filthy lucre 444 and among whom desertions and mutinies belong to the order of the day4--,w4 ,,helm1 ,w4,w4,s4,m41 p4 #bj4 #afg4 ,i have travelled at midsummer through the length and breadth of ,england1 from ,london to ,glasgow and ,edinburgh1 and to ,wales2 but ,i have not seen a single cornfield4--,k4,l4,a4 ,,schmidt1 ,d4,e4,e41 p4 #bi4 #afh4 ,not only were the most monstrous untruths as to the violent proceedings of ,germany disseminated by the ,press1 but care was taken to suppress all mention of the twice repeated generous offer of ,germany to compensate ,belgium in every respect1 if she would permit the transit of ,german troops4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #ca4 #afi4 ,if1 apart from one or two acts of rascality 7ein paar ,bubenstreichen71 we have as yet seen nothing of the ,british ,fleet1 it is among other reasons because ,john ,bull knows that the crews of his ships are simply not to be trusted4--,w4 ,,helm1 ,w4,w4,s4,m41 p4 #bj4 #agj4 ,we know1 for example1 that ,english prisoners and wounded passing through ,cologne 444 could scarcely believe their eyes when they saw that our noble cathedral was not a heap of ruins1 as their papers had assured them6--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #ee4 #aga4 ,the ,french soldiers thought they were only going to manoeuvres4 ,not until they were face to face with the enemy1 had come under the fire of our rifles and seen our bayonets1 did they find out that they had been deceived1 that they had been lied into the war4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4 ,h41 p4 #abf4 #agb4 ,what homage does not the stupid world pay to ,carnegie2 and now we learn that1 through his endowments for professors and students1 he has enslaved the universities1 imposing upon them hard-and-fast doctrines1 as1 for example1 the worship of ,england and hostility to ,germany4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,p4,i41 p4 #ef4 #agc4 ,when we in #ahgj-ga bombarded the fortress of ,paris1 that was an outrage upon a sacred spot4 ,but when the ,english battered to the ground the defenceless ,alexandria#bj--that was of course quite in order4--,,prof4 ,u4 v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 pt4 i41 p4 #bg4 #agc;a4 ,when our ,zeppelins drop bombs on the fortress of ,antwerp1 there are loud protests4 ,but how have not ,french prisoners boasted of the burning by their bombs of the open city of ,nrnberg4 ,the will was there2 only the power was lacking4#ba--,,prof4 ,u4 ,v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 pt4 i41 p4 #bg4 ,german ,insight and ,foresight4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #agd4 ,of the militia of the ,british self-governing ,dominions4 ,they can be completely ignored so far as concerns any ,european theatre of war4 ,of the ,british ,territorial ,army4 ,for a ,continental ,european war it may be left out of account4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ace4 #age4 ,as soon as we have won our first victory1 we may be sure that ,italy will unconditionally accord us her armed cooperation4--,k4 ,v4 ,,strantz1 ,e4,s4,v41 p4 #ba4 #agf4 ,if1 in case of war1 ,england should join the ,dual ,alliance against us1 our military position will be in no way prejudiced1 if we1 on our side1 take care to kindle fires at the points where her world-power is threatened4 ,in that case1 too1 oversea prizes beckon us on1 which will be well worth the winning4--,k4 v4 ,,strantz1 ,e4,s4,v41 p4 #ci4 #agg4 ,i do not at all believe that ,zeppelins have anything to fear from aeroplanes1 as their critics assert4--,a4 ,,wirth1 ,t4,o4,d41 p4 #eb4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #agh4 ,the far-seeing ,english politician expects the present war greatly to improve the position of ,england as against the ,united ,states4 ,any injury that ,england may conceivably inflict on its best customer1 ,germany 444 will be as nothing in comparison with the direct and indirect losses the war must inflict on ,america4--,,dr4 ,a4 ,,zimmermann1 quoted by ,p4 ,,heinsick1 ,w4,u4,g41 p4 #ba4 #agi4 ,there can be no possible doubt that ,england1 in secret1 heartily rejoices in every ,russian defeat4--,p4 ,,heinsick1 ,w4,u4,g41 p4 #ba4 ,german ,freedom4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #ahj4 ,an un-,german freedom is no freedom4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ba4 #ahj;a4 ,germany has been for centuries the true and only home of a freedom worthy of humanity and elevating to humanity4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ae4 #aha4 ,german freedom is thus not a natural human right1 but an elevation of humanity above the despotism of its own personal inclinations4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #df4 #ahb4 ,we should be in an evil case if we were to barter for these ,english liberties1 however praiseworthy in themselves1 our individual many-sidedness1 our temperament in constant touch with life1 in short our ,deutschtum4--,,karl ,,heckel1 ,e4,b41 p4 #chd4 #ahc4 ,ah1 ,milton1 wert thou living at this hour6444 ,thou would'st understand ,german championship of freedom1 care for justice1 and love of truth4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,brandl1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #bj4 ,on ,english ,freedom1 see ,nos4 #dja;a1 #dfg4 ,the ,german ,language4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #ahd4 ,fichte expresses in simple words a positively decisive truth 444 of all the languages of ,europe1 ,german is the only living one4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #bf4 #ahe4 ,the ,german 444 must conquer2 and when once he has conquered--to-day or in a hundred years444--no duty is more urgent than that of forcing the ,german language upon the world4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #cc4 #ahf4 ,if ,german ,kultur and the ,german spirit are to march victorious through the world1 not to oppress other peoples1 but to aid them in their own development1 an essential preliminary will be the spread of the ,german language4 ,for only he who knows the ,german language1 and can read the works of our spiritual heroes in the original1 can really penetrate into the ,german spirit1 and feel himself at home there4--,c4,l4 ,,poehlmann1 ,g4,d4,w41 p4 #dh4 #ahg4 ,chance brings to my hands to-day a copy of ,jugend for ,may #bh1 #aijj1 containing an article by me in which ,i read3 ,i have no firmer or more sacred conviction than this1 that the higher ,kultur of humanity depends upon the spreading of the ,german language4 ,i go on to explain that this language is the indispensable interpreter of the ,german nature 7,wesen71 which is what ,i chiefly prize2 and for the spreading of the language it is necessary that the ,german ,empire should develop into the leading ,state of the world4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,d4,z41 p4 #i4 #ahh4 ,a defeat for ,germany ,i could regard only as a deferred victory4 ,i should say to myself3 ,the time1 then1 is not yet ripe2 the sacred treasure must yet awhile be guarded and cherished in the circle of the narrower ,fatherland4 ,for alone among all nations ,germany possesses to-day a living1 developing1 sacred treasure4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #bd4 #ahi4 ,germanism 7,was wir deutsch nennen7 is the secret through which the inner man is illuminated2 and the instrument of this illumination is the ,german language4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #be4 #aij4 ,if ,montaigne were living to-day1 he would have to remain silent--or to learn ,german4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #bi4 #aia4 ,men must come to realize that whoever cannot speak ,german is a pariah4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ce4 ,,footnotes3 #h ,a common expression for the ordinary1 average ,german4 #i ,this address was delivered1 #ith ,september1 #aiad4 ,the ,lusitania was sunk #gth ,may1 #aiae4 #aj ,though this was written in the second month of the war1 we must in fairness assume that ,herr ,chamberlain is thinking of the ,german state of mind before the war4 ,but as he has lived thirty years in ,germany he must have been there during the ,south ,african ,war1 when the ,german feeling towards ,england was too mildly described by the term animosity4 #aa ,and you must love him ere to you ,he will seem worthy of your love #ab ,m4 ,dumont1 writing of the ,albanians 7,rev4 des ,deux ,mondes1 vi41 #abj1 #ahgb71 supplies a pertinent comment on ,german piety3 ,ce qui fait qu'une tribu croit son dieu1 c'est la haine de la tribu voisine4 #ac ,chamberlain says that this letter was addressed to him in ,november1 #aiad1 by a correspondent whom he refuses to name1 but of whom he will say that few men can form such well-informed judgment upon all phases in the life of present-day ,germany1 and no one deserves to be listened to with higher respect4 ,these expressions1 and the mention of ,william ,i41 may perhaps justify the conjecture that the writer is none other than ,chamberlain's warm admirer1 ,william ,,ii4 #ad ,the same author explains that of course the ,german people have not in themselves deserved this calling3 it proceeds from the sheer grace of ,god1 so we can maintain it without any ,pharisaism whatever4 #ae ,this saying had already burst its bonds and been appropriated to ,germany by the ,kaiser3--,we are the salt of the earth1 but we must also be worthy to be so4 7,bremen1 #bbnd ,march1 #aije47 #af ,it is odd that the creator of children's literature should have taken the very name of his work from an ,english book which had been the delight of children for half a century before he wrote4 #ag ,compare with this the following3--,in our struggle with the ,triple ,entente1 we look for the most valuable aid from ,pan-,islamism1 from the living sense of solidarity between all ,muslims of the whole world1 dependent on their common religion4444 ,if all accounts be true1 the whole ,muslim world is flocking round the ,sultan-,kalif1 and regards this war as a ',holy ,war1' ,that would be the first and perhaps the greatest triumph of the ,pan-,islamic movement4--,,dr4 ,e4 ,,huber1 in ,das ,grssere ,deutschland1 ,christmas ,eve1 #aiad4 #ah ,the particular injunction of the ,evangel of ,christ which inspired the sinking of the ,lusitania was no doubt ,suffer little children to come unto me4 #ai ,after making this proposal on p4 #d1 ,professor v4 ,harnack1 on p4 #f1 gives the following account of the ,battle of the ,marne3--,we have1 without any defeat1 partly withdrawn our troops to form an iron line of battle from ,arras and ,noyon to ,verdun4 #bj ,the defenceless ,alexandria was defended by an elaborate system of forts mounting hundreds of guns4 ,it was these forts that the fleet bombarded1 in the face of considerable resistance4 ,the conflagrations in the city were the work of escaped or liberated convicts4 #ba ,if any ,french soldiers actually believed that ,nrnberg had been bombed1 it can only have been because the ,german ,government spread the report1 through the mouth of its ,ambassador in ,paris1 as an excuse for declaring war4 7,french ,yellow ,book1 ,no4 #aei47 ,it is possible that some ,frenchmen may have incautiously believed the ,german ,government4 ,the report has been shown by ,german investigation to be entirely groundless4 ,,ii ,,german ,,ambitions ,,ii ,,german ,,ambitions ,expansion in ,europe4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #aib4 ,germany cannot be suspected of wishing for war4444 ,she covets no possession of her neighbours4 ,any one who says that she does1 slanders her4--,manifesto of the ,german ,defence ,league1 ,march1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #he4 #aib;a4 ,a developing1 onward-striving people like ourselves requires new land for its energies1 and if peace will not secure it1 then only war remains4 ,to arouse people to a realization of this fact was the mission of the ,defence ,league4--,,general v4 ,,wrochem1 at meeting of ,german ,defence ,league1 ,danzig1 ,march1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #hd4 #aib;b4 ,it is precisely our craving for expansion that drives us into the paths of conquest1 and in view of which all chatter about peace and humanity can and must remain nothing but chatter4--,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #aed4 #aic4 ,a new period of progress towards unification is possible only by means of a great and courageous policy1 which should lead to victorious wars1 and if possible to the territorial expansion of the ,empire4--,d4,b4,b41 p4 #bjb4 #aid4 ,all the policy1 internal and external1 of the ,empire ought to be subordinated to this governing idea--the ,germanization of all the remains of foreign populations within the ,empire1 and the procuring for the ,german people of new territories1 proportionate to its strength and its need of expansion4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,b4,d4,v41 p4 #abf4 #aie4 ,our frontiers are too narrow4 ,we must become land-hungry1 must acquire new regions for settlement1 otherwise we will be a sinking people1 a stunted race4 ,true love for our people and its children commands us to think of their future1 however much they may accuse us of quarrelsomeness and lust of war4 ,if the ,germanic people shrank from war it would be as good as dead4--,,baron ,v4 ,,vietinghoff-,,scheel1 at meeting of ,pan-,german ,league1 ,erfurt1 ,september1 #aiab4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #gb4 #aif4 ,let us bravely organize great forced migrations of the inferior peoples4 ,posterity will be grateful to us4 ,we must coerce them6 ,this is one of the tasks of war3 the means must be superiority of armed force4 ,superficially such forced migrations1 and the penning up of inconvenient peoples in narrow reserves1 may appear hard2 but it is the only solution of the race-question that is worthy of humanity4444 ,thus alone can the over-population of the earth be controlled3 the efficient peoples must secure themselves elbow-room by means of war1 and the inefficient must be hemmed in1 and at last driven into reserves where they have no room to grow 444 and where1 discouraged and rendered indifferent to the future by the spectacle of the superior energy of their conquerors1 they may crawl slowly towards the peaceful death of weary and hopeless senility4#bb--,k4 ,,wagner1 ,k41 p4 #agj4 #aig4 ,we desire1 and must desire 444 a world-empire of ,teutonic 7germanisch7 stock1 under the hegemony of the ,german people4 ,in order to secure this we must-- 7a7 ,gradually ,germanize the ,scandinavian and ,dutch ,teutonic ,states1 denationalizing them in the weaker signification of the term2#bc 7b7 ,break up the predominantly un-,teutonic peoples into their component parts1 in order to take to ourselves the ,teutonic element and ,germanize it1 while we reject the un-,teutonic element4 --,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #acg4 #aig;a4 ,such false ideas as to nationality1 speech and race are now prevalent 444 that it is often maintained that no breaking-up of nations would be necessary1 but that a ,germanization in the mass of the nations in question ,germany's smaller neighbours would be sufficient4--,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #acj4 #aih4 ,we are indubitably the most martial nation in the world4444 ,we are the most gifted of nations in all the domains of science and art4 ,we are the best colonists1 the best sailors1 and even the best traders6 ,and yet we have not up to now secured our due share in the heritage of the world4444 ,that the ,german ,empire is not the end but the beginning of our national development is an obvious truth4--,f4 ,,bley1 ,w4,d41 pp4 #ba-bb4 #aii4 ,we must create a ,central ,europe which will guarantee the peace of the entire continent from the moment when it shall have driven the ,russians from the ,black ,sea and the ,slavs from the south1 and shall have conquered large tracts to the east of our frontiers for ,german colonization4 ,we cannot let loose ex abrupto the war which will create this ,central ,europe4 ,all we can do is to accustom our people to the thought that this war must come4--,p4 ,,de ,,lagarde1 ,d4,s41 p4 #hc4 #bjj4 ,before seeking to found a ,greater ,germany in other continents1 we must create a ,greater ,germany in ,central ,europe4444 ,in seeking to colonize the countries immediately contiguous to our present patrimony1 we are continuing the millenary work of our ancestors4 ,there is nothing in this contrary to nature4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,d4,g41 p4 #afh4 #bjj;a4 ,every great people needs new territory2 it must expand over foreign soil2 it must expel the foreigners by the power of the sword4--,k4 ,,wagner1 ,k41 p4 #hj4 #bja4 ,for this evil the emigration of the surplus population we see only one remedy3 the extension of our frontiers in ,europe4444 ,we must make room for an ,empire of ,germanic race which shall number #ajj1jjj1jjj inhabitants1 in order that we may hold our own against masses such as those of ,russia and the ,united ,states4--,d4,b4,b41 p4 #aae4 #bjb4 ,in the ,great-,german ,confederation which will comprise most of ,europe the ,germans1 being alone entitled to exercise political rights1 to serve in the ,army and ,navy1 and to acquire landed property1 will recover the feeling they had in the ,middle ,ages of being a people of masters4 ,they will gladly tolerate the foreigners living among them1 to whom inferior manual services will be entrusted4--,g4,u4,m41 p4 #dg4 #bjc4 ,the principles which must guide the ,german people in the establishment of the new ,germanic world-empire are these3-- 7#a7 ,the strengthening of its ,germanic race-foundation4 7#b7 ,the securing of room for its surplus of births4 7#c7 ,the greatest possible expansion of this surplus over a portion of the earth which shall be sufficiently large1 various and geographically well-situated to form an economic unit4 --,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #ace4 #bjd4 ,our own social health1 towards which1 in the name of our moral ideals1 we are now striving1 may one day compel us to force upon other nations the benefits of the new economic forms4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #afj 7#ahic74 #bje4 ,one thing alone can really profit the ,german people3 the acquisition of new territory4 ,that is the only solid and durable gain 444 that alone can really promote the diffusion1 the growth and the deepening of ,germanism4--,a4 ,,wirth1 ,o4,u4,w41 p4 #ef4 #bjf4 ,excessive modesty and humility1 rather than excessive arrogance and ambition1 is a feature of the ,german character4 ,therefore we shall know how to set a limit to our desire for expansion1 and shall escape the dangers which have been fatal to all conquerors whose ambition was unbridled4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,w4,i4,k41 p4 #fc4 #bjf;a4 ,the territory open to future ,german expansion 444 must extend from the ,north ,sea and the ,baltic1 to the ,persian ,gulf1 absorbing the ,netherlands and ,luxembourg1 ,switzerland1 the whole basin of the ,danube1 the ,balkan ,peninsula and ,asia ,minor4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,w4,i4,k41 p4 #fe4 #bjf;b4 ,nowhere in the world is there so much declamation about ,chauvinism as in ,germany1 and nowhere is so little of it to be found4 ,we hesitate to express even the most natural demands that a nation can make for itself4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i4 #bjg4 ,when one wishes a thing1 one must effectually will it4 ,our sense of justice 6 may in future lead us not to desire what does not belong to us1 but if we take we must also hold fast4 ,in other words1 hitherto foreign territory is not incorporated into ,germany until ,german proprietorship is rooted in the soil4#bd--;,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #bjf 7#ahic74 #bjh4 ,a people that has increased so much as the ,german people is forced to carry on a constant policy of expansion4 ,it must be candidly confessed that since the retirement of ,bismarck the ,will to ,power had been lacking4--,,general v4 ,,liebert1 ,member of the ,reichstag1 at meeting of ,pan-,german ,league1 ,hamburg1 ,january1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #gf4 #bji4 ,since the ,western ,powers restrict our right to life1 it is necessary that we should attach one of them to us or that we should sweep them out of our way by force4--,m4 ,,harden1 ,zukunft1 #abth ,august1 #aiaa4 #baj4 ,the ,rhine 444 is a priceless natural possession1 although by our own fault we have allowed its most material value to fall into alien hands1 and it must be the unceasing endeavour of ,german policy to win back the mouths of the river4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #abe4 #baa4 ,the ,jablunka must never hear any language but ,german1 and the ,german wave must spread thence towards the south until nothing remains of all the lamentable nationalities of the ,imperial ,state ,austria4--,p4 ,,de ,,lagarde1 ,d4,s41 p4 #aab4 #bab4 ,if our area of colonization#be does not coincide with our political boundaries1 the healthy egoism of our race commands us to place our frontier-posts in foreign territory1 as we have done at ,metz4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,d4,g41 p4 #aff4 #bac4 ,a sturdy ,german egoism must characterize all political action4444 ,the first principle of our policy1 both at home and abroad1 must be that1 in everything that happens1 the ,germans literally1 the most ,german should come off best1 and the others should have a bad time of it 7sich unbehaglich fhlen74--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #bac 7#ahic74 #bac;a4 ,a ,ministry of ,colonization must make up for lost time4 ,with all prudence1 but also with inflexible determination1 a process of expropriation should be inaugurated1 by which the ,poles and the ,alsatians and ,lorrainers would be gradually transported to the interior of the ,empire1 while ,germans would replace them on the frontier4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #bjf4 ,expansion beyond ,europe4 #bad4 ,we must 444 see to it that the outcome of our next successful war must be the acquisition of colonies by any possible means4--,h4,v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #aai4 #bae4 ,a ,german policy of expansion is to-day generally accepted4 ,the ,empire must acquire more colonies4--,,dr4 ,,pohl1 of ,berlin1 at meeting of ,pan-,german ,league1 ,augsburg1 ,september1 #aiab4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #gb4 #baf4 ,in all lands under ,german influence a double power is more or less strongly at work3 the creative power of the spirit 444 and the creative power of the body1 that is to say1 fecundity4444 ,whither our spiritual and our bodily fecundity impel us1 thither we must go--out over the world6 7hin ber die ,welt674--,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #ff4 #bag4 ,the longing for an eternal peace was ,utopian and enervating4444 ,nor was there any lack of a great national aim4 ,at the division of the earth between the other ,great ,powers1 ,germany had gone almost empty away4 ,but ,germany needed new regions for the planting-out of its ever-growing1 inexhaustible wealth of people4--,,general ,v4 ,,wrochem1 at meeting of the ,german ,defence ,league1 ,hanover1 ,february1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #hc4 #bah4 ,with all respect to the rights of foreign nations1 it must be said that ,germany has not as yet the colonies which it must have4444 ,our development demands recognition4 ,that is a natural right4 ,there is here no question of prestige-politics1 of adventurer-politics4 ,further1 we are not an institute for lengthening the life of dying ,states4444 ,those half-,states which owe their existence only to the aid of foreign weapons1 money or knowledge1 are hopelessly at the mercy of the modern ,states4--,leipziger ,tageblatt1 #bdth ,january1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #ea4 #bai4 ,the ,ministry of ,colonization must also arrange systematically for emigration to foreign countries4444 ,the ,government alone can1 by the uncompromising 7rcksichtslos7 employment of its methods of power1 conclude treaties 444 imposing on the foreign countries the conditions which it regards as desirable4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #bjg 7#ahic74 #bbj4 ,in this nineteenth century1 when ,germany has become the first ,power in the world1 are we incapable of doing what our ancestors did8 ,germany must lay her mighty grasp upon ,asia ,minor4--,,amicus ,,patri1 ,a4,u4,k41 p4 #ae4 #bba4 ,the hostile arrogance of the ,western ,powers releases us from all our treaty obligations1 throws open the doors of our verbal prison-house1 and forces the ,german ,empire1 resolutely defending her vital rights1 to revive the ancient ,prussian policy of conquest4 ,all ,morocco in the hands of ,germany2 ,german cannon on the routes to ,egypt and ,india2 ,german troops on the ,algerian frontier2 this would be a goal worthy of great sacrifices4--,m4 ,,harden1 ,zukunft1 #bith ,july1 #aiaa4 #bbb4 ,if we do not soon acquire new territory1 a frightful catastrophe is inevitable4 ,it signifies little whether it be in ,brazil1 in ,siberia1 in ,anatolia or in ,south ,africa4444 ,to-day1 as #b1jjj years ago1 when the ,cimbri and the ,teutons beat at the gates of ,rome1 a cry arises 444 ever louder and louder1 ,give us land1 give us new land6--,a4 ,,wirth1 ,v4,u4,w41 p4 #bbg4 #bbc4 ,thanks to our youthfulness and our capacity of development1 thanks also to our military power1 many things are possible3 we can create a ,german nation which shall number #ajj1jjj1jjj inhabitants1 we can become ,europe1 and dominate the seas into the bargain4--,d4,b4,b41 p4 #baa4 #bbc;a4 ,this ,germany of ours was once the greatest of the ,sea ,powers1 and1 ,god willing1 so she will be again4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #bac4 #bbd4 ,civis ,germanicus sum--ich bin ein ,deutscher6 ,as the free ,roman1 in his character of ,civis ,romanus1 formerly ruled the world1 so must every continental ,german of to-day1 and of the future1 rule the world in his character of ,civis ,germanicus4--,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #adf4 ,weltmacht 7,world-,dominion74 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #bbe4 ,we want no world-dominion4444 ,it is unjust1 and therefore un-,german4--,,prof4 ,w4 v4 ,,blume1 ,d4,d4,m41 p4 #bc4 #bbe;a4 ,germany1 as the preponderant ,power in a ,great-,german ,league1 will with this war attain world-supremacy4--,r4 ,,theuden1 ,w4,m4,k4,b41 p4 #ac4 #bbf4 ,we want no hegemony1 no world-dominion6 ,such ambitions mean everlasting war2 whereas ,germany sincerely desires peace1 and the influence which shall enable her to establish it4--,,prof4 ,,dr4 ,r4 ,,jannasch1 ,w4,d4,u4,s41 p4 #bb4 #bbf;a4 ,formerly ,german thought was shut up in her corner1 but now the world shall have its coat cut according to ,german measure1 and as far as our swords flash and ,german blood flows1 the circle of the earth shall come under the tutelage of ,german activity4--,world-,germany1 by ,f4 ,,philippi1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #dc4 #bbg4 ,we were contented within our boundaries4 ,not a single foot did we want of the countries adjoining our frontiers4 ,,prof4 ,u4 ,v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 pt4 i41 p4 ,,ii4 #bbg;a4 ,before everything1 however1 we must see to the provision of agricultural land6 ,we require more soil for settlement4444 ,and we require unsettled land for settlement4 ,no alien fellow-citizens6--,,prof4 ,m4 v4 ,,gruber1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #cj1 p4 #bg4 #bbh4 ,with us shall right and morality1 truth and faithfulness1 win the fight against wrong and baseness1 malice and falsehood4 ,through our supremacy 7,vorherrschaft71 which we hope will be the outward result of this war1 ,god will establish ,his dominion over the many-coloured throng of the nations who stand against us4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #abh4 #bbi4 ,not through a chaotic conflict of ideas1 but only through unity of conviction1 can a world-ruling ,germany arise2 and if ,germany does not rule the world 7,i do not mean through her power alone1 but through her all-sided superiority and moral weight7 then she will disappear from the map2 it is a case of ,either--or4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,p4,i41 p4 #ci4 #bcj4 ,not one of our ,pan-,german leaders1 whose plans are to-day being realized on the battlefields1 received honour or recognition at the hands of the ,german monarchs1 for whose honour and glory we had suffered and fought4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #f4 #bca4 ,if we set ourselves to multiply1 as we did in the first five years of this century1 then the ,german people would in #aiej number #aah millions1 and in the year #bjjj1 #bej millions4 ,then we could face the future with considerably more confidence4--,,prof4 ,m4 ,v4 ,,gruber1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #cj1 p4 #be4 #bcb4 ,germany--of this ,i am convinced--may in less than two centuries succeed in dominating 7beherrschen7 the whole globe 7,erdkugel71 in part directly and politically1 in part indirectly1 through language1 methods and ,kultur1 if only it can in time strike out a new course1 and definitely break with ,anglo-,american methods of government1 and with the ,state-destroying ideals of the ,revolution4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,p4,i41 p4 #hh4 #bcc4 ,if every representative1 rising to the height of the great time in which he lives1 will put away from him all pettiness of spirit 444 we shall be an unconquerable people1 capable of ruling the world4--,c4,l4 ,,poehlmann1 ,g4,d4,w41 p4 #aa4 #bcd4 ,where self-interest ends the real patriotism begins2 and its measure is not the loud chest-note of conviction1 but self-sacrificing1 untiring work in the service of the community1 in order gradually to win for the ,german nature 7,wesen7 the first place in the world4--,,prof4 ,g4,e4 ,,pazaurek1 ,p4,k4,u4,k41 p4 #e4 #bce4 ,just such a systematic transformation of the world as ,augustus effected1 ,germany must now undertake--but on how much nobler a plan6--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #db4 #bce;a4 ,germany will be the schoolmaster of all the world1 as every ,german has a bit of the schoolmaster in him4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,v4 ,,blume1 ,d4,d4,m41 p4 #be4 ,compare ,no4 #hb4 #bcf4 ,the war must last until we have forced disarmament upon our enemies4 ,there is a nursery rhyme which runs thus3-- ,knife and scissors1 fork and candle1 ,little children must not handle4 ,since the enemy ,states behave so childishly as to misuse their arms1 they must be placed under tutelage4 ,moreover1 our enemies have acted so dishonourably that it is only just that rights of citizenship should be denied them4444 ,when they can no longer bear arms1 they cannot make any new disturbances4--,o4 ,,siemens1 ,w4,l4,k4,d41 p4 #dg4 #bcg4 ,we must establish ourselves firmly at ,antwerp on the ,north ,sea and at ,riga on the ,baltic4444 ,at all events we must1 at the conclusion of peace1 demand substantial expansions of the ,german ,empire4 ,in this our motive will not be the greed and covetousness of world-ruling ,england1 nor the national vanity of gloire-seeking ,france1 nor the childish megalomania of ,rome-mad ,italy1 nor the insatiable craving for expansion of semi-barbarous ,russia4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #abb4 #bch4 ,we could not but say to ourselves1 ,if once it comes to war with ,england1 it will be difficult for us to get at her in her island4 ,it will be easier to strike at her in ,egypt which the writer elsewhere describes as the keystone of the arch of the ,british ,empire4 ,but to that end we require an alliance with the ,turks4 444 ,therefore ,germany sent officers to instruct the ,turkish ,army1 therefore the ,emperor went in #ahih to ,constantinople and ,jerusalem and made his famous speech as to the friendship between ,germany and the ,mohammedans4 ,therefore we built the ,bagdad ,railway with ,german money4--,p4 ,,rohrbach1 ,w4,w4,r41 p4 #ab4 #bci4 ,noblesse oblige4444 ,the idea that we are the chosen people imposes on us heavy duties1 and duties only4444 ,we are not out to conquer the world4 ,have no fear1 my dear neighbours1 we will not devour you4444 ,should it be necessary to increase our territory in order that the greater body of the people may have room to develop1 then in that case we shall take as much land as may appear to be necessary4 ,we will also plant our foot where it appears important on strategic grounds that we should do so1 in order to maintain our impregnable strength4 ,thus1 if our position of strength in the world will gain by it1 we will establish stations for our fleet1 for example1 in ,dover1 ,malta and ,suez4 ,beyond this we will do nothing4 ,we have not the least desire to expand1 for we have something more important to do4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h1 p4 #adc4 #bci;a4 ,we trust that the ,german ,eagle1 when with one wing he has scourged the barbarians back into ,asia1 and with the other has freed himself from unworthy chains1 will soar high over the oceans 444 where his wings can grow and he can stretch them according to his needs4 ,and we hope that this strong1 united1 purified ,germany will be a fountain of rejuvenescence to the ageing ,kultur of ,europe4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #a1 p4 #ca4 ,see also ,nos4 #g1 #hd4 ,,footnotes3 #bb ,it is only right to state that the author urges this spirited policy1 not upon his countrymen alone1 but upon the ,germanoid races at large4 ,the inefficient peoples whom he has specially in view are the non-,german populations of ,south ,america1 whom he proposes to deport to reserves in ,africa6 #bc ,the author has previously defined two grades of denationalization4 ,the second or weaker grade includes the substitution of ,german for the national language4 ,for the diabolical means by which he proposes to secure the extinction of undesired and enslaved races1 see ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #aei4 #bd ,that is1 until the original landowners are forcibly expropriated4 #be ,it is not quite clear what the ,professor means by colonization--but it does not greatly matter4 ,,iii ,,war-,,worship ,,iii ,,war-,,worship ,the ,lust of ,battle4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #bdj4 ,how often1 in such a charge during manoeuvres has my ear caught the yearning cry of a comrade tearing along beside me3 ,donnerwetter1 if this were only the real thing6 7wenn das doch ,ernst wre74--,,kronprinz ,,wilhelm1 ,d4,i4,w41 ,chapter ,,ii4 #bdj;a4 ,when the ,gordian knot is ready to be cut1 ,god sends the ,alexander6 ,does not the ,crown ,prince ,william's confession of his belief in courage as the highest flower of the human spirit1 in his book ,deutschland in ,waffen1 sound like an answer to the longing that thrills through our whole people8--,deutsche ,tageszeitung1 #eth ,may1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #cd4 #bda4 ,in philosophic form1 the idea of the beneficence of war may be traced back to the saying of ,heraclitus1 polemos patr pantn war is the father of everything4444 ,war is held to be a divine institution1 a law of the universe1 present in all nature2 not for nothing do the ,indians worship ,siva the ,destroyer2 the warrior is filled with the enthusiasm of destruction2 wars purify the atmosphere like thunderstorms4444#bf ,we may here refer to ,h4 ,leo's phrase as to the fresh and joyous war that shall sweep away the scrofulous rabble vom frischen und frhlichen ,krieg1 der das skrofulse ,gesindel wegfegen soll44--,j4 ,,burckhardt1 ,w4,b41 p4 #afc4 #bdb4 ,the ,kaiser may have thought that war was not necessary 444 because every year of peace increased the power of the ,empire1 and because the ,german hegemony in ,europe was safe enough without shedding a drop of blood4 ,to this one may reply that the noblest weapon rusts if its use is too long restricted to reviews and parades 444 and that every ascent to a higher mental ,kultur impairs the barbaric energy of warriors1 and encumbers them with scruples which damp their joyous courage4--,m4 ,,harden1 ,zukunft1 #aith ,august1 #aiaa4 ,war and ,religion4 #bdc4 ,it is no mere chance that the earliest piece of poetry1 the oldest three distiches of the ,old ,testament1 the ,song of ,lamech1 is a song of triumph over the invention of the sword4 7,genesis1 iv41 #bc73-- ,ada and ,zillah hear my voice2 ,ye wives of ,lamech hearken unto my speech3 ,for ,i have slain a man for wounding me1 ,and a young man for bruising me3 ,if ,cain shall be avenged sevenfold1 ,truly ,lamech seventy and sevenfold4 --,e4 v4 ,,lasaulx1 ,p4,g41 p4 #he4 #bdd4 ,perpetual peace is a dream1 and it is not even a beautiful dream3 war forms part of the eternal order instituted by ,god4444 ,without war humanity would sink into materialism4--,,count ,v4 ,,moltke1 letter to ,bluntschli1 #aath ,december1 #ahhj4 #bde4 ,to appeal from this judgment to ,christianity would be sheer perversity1 for does not the ,bible distinctly say that the ruler shall rule by the sword1 and1 again1 that greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friend8--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #fg4 #bde;a4 ,but it is not worth while to speak further of these matters1 for ,god above us will see to it that war shall always recur1 as a drastic medicine for ailing humanity4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #fi4 #bdf4 ,christian morality is based1 indeed1 on the law of love4 ,love ,god above all things1 and thy neighbour as thyself4 ,this law can claim no significance for the relations of one country to another1 since its application to politics would lead to a conflict of duties4444 ,christ himself said3 ,i am not come to send peace on earth1 but a sword4 ,his teaching can never be adduced as an argument against the universal law of struggle4 ,there never was a religion which was more combative than ,christianity4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #bi4 #bdg4 ,when here on earth a battle is won by ,german arms and the faithful dead ascend to ,heaven1 a ,potsdam lance-corporal will call the guard to the door1 and old ,fritz1 springing from his golden throne1 will give the command to present arms4 ,that is the ,heaven of ,young ,germany4--,weekly ,paper for ,young ,germany1 ,january #be1 #aiac4 ,compare ,god and the old ,kaiser ,no4 #ig4 ,war and ,ethics4 #bdh4 ,nothing is more immoral than to consider and talk of war as an immoral thing4 ,war is the mother of all good things 7,empedocles74444 ,and there is nothing more moral than the collective egoism1 the self-conserving instinct1 of nations4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,z4,d4,v41 p4 #abg4 #bdh;a4 ,the idea of war is the child of healthy egoism1 which is honest to the marrow of its bones1 is ashamed of nothing in ,nature4444 but is the basis of all ,kultur1 of all morality4--,k4 ,,wagner1 ,k4 #bdi4 ,we must therefore reckon with war as a necessary factor towards higher development4444 ,a people really learns to know its full national strength only in war 444 only then1 indeed1 does its full strength come into existence4--,j4 ,,burckhardt1 ,w4,b41 p4 #afb4 #bdi;a4 ,war makes room for the competent at the expense of the unsound4 ,war is the source of all good growth4 ,without war the development of nations is impossible--,k4 ,,wagner1 ,k41 p4 #ahc4 #bej4 ,the sight of blood and wounds steels the nerves of the soul1 the horrors of war stimulate the spirits1 so that instead of the falsehood and cowardice of enervation1 the old heroic virtues are restored 444 fear of ,god1 martial bravery1 obedience1 up-rightness of mind1 constancy1 truth 444 manlike courage1 manly pity1 and all that is great and good in humanity4--,e4 v4 ,,lasaulx1 ,p4,g41 p4 #hf4 ,compare ,nos4 #bed1 #caa4 #bea4 ,the brutal incidents inseparable from every war vanish completely before the idealism of the main result4444 ,strength1 truth and honour come to the front and are brought in to play4--,,general ,v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #bg4 #beb4 ,war is the most august and sacred of human activities4444 ,for us1 too1 the great1 joyful hour of battle will one day strike4444 ,the openly expressed longing for war often degenerates into vain boasting and ludicrous sabre-rattling4 ,but still and deep in the ,german heart must the joy in war and the longing for war endure4--,,otto ,,von ,,gottberg1 in ,weekly ,paper for the ,youth of ,germany1 #beth ,january1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #a4 #bec4 ,life as the most necessary medium of ,kultur--that is the ground on which the modern apostles of peace take their stand4444 ,but our ,german morality makes short work of all such rubbish4 ,it says with ,moltke3 ,eternal peace is only a dream1 and not even a beautiful dream6 ,no1 certainly not beautiful1 for a peace which could no longer look forward to war as the issue even of the worst complications would poison and rot away our inmost heart1 until we became loathsome to ourselves4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #aeg 7#ahic74 #bed4 ,whosoever has crossed a great battlefield and has shuddered in the depths of his soul at all the horrors confronting him1 will have found new strength and exaltation in the thought that here the whole tragic gravity of military necessity is regnant1 and here a justifiable passion has done its work4--,,general v4 ,,hartmann1 ,d4,r41 ,,xiv41 p4 #hd4 #bee4 ,the appeal to arms will be valid until the end of history1 and therein lies the sacredness of war4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #bi4 ,see also ,no4 #cad4 ,war and ,biology4 #bef4 ,we children of the future 444 do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on the earth4444 ,we rejoice in all men who1 like ourselves1 love danger1 war and adventure 444 we count ourselves among the conquerors2 we ponder over the need of a new order of things1 even of a new slavery--for every strengthening and elevation of the type man also involves a new form of slavery4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,j4,w41 section #cgg4 #beg4 ,unless we choose to shut our eyes to the necessity of evolution1 we must recognize the necessity of war4 ,we must accept war1 which will last as long as development and existence2 we must accept eternal war4--,k4 ,,wagner1 ,k41 p4 #aec4 #beh4 ,war is the father of everything1 says ,heraclitus4 ,it will be the father of the new ,german race of the future4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,z4,d4,v41 p4 #abf4 #bei4 ,the efforts directed towards the abolition of war must not only be termed foolish1 but absolutely immoral1 and must be stigmatized as unworthy of the human race4444 ,the weak nation is to have the same right to live as the powerful and vigorous nation6 ,the whole idea represents a presumptuous encroachment on the natural laws of development4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #cd4 #bfj4 ,it is proved beyond all shadow of doubt that regular war 7der regelrechte ,krieg7 is1 not only from the biological and true kultural standpoint1 the best and noblest form of the struggle for existence1 but also1 from time to time1 an absolute necessity for the maintenance of the ,state and society4--,,dr4 ,,schmidt1 of ,gibichenfels1 at meeting of ,pan-,german ,league1 ,berlin1 ,october1 #aiab4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #gc4 #bfa4 ,war is a biological necessity of the first importance1 a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with4444 ,war is the father of all things4 ,the sages of antiquity1 long before ,darwin1 recognized this4444 ,to supplant or to be supplanted is the essence of life1 says ,goethe1 and the strong life gains the upper hand4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ah4 ,see also ,no4 #chf4 ,war and ,kultur4 #bfb4 ,it is nothing but fanaticism to expect very much from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war4 ,for the present we know of no other means whereby the rough energy of the camp1 the deep impersonal hatred1 the cold-bloodedness of murder with a good conscience1 the general ardour of the system in the destruction of the enemy 444 can be as forcibly and certainly communicated to enervated nations as is done by every great war4 ,kultur can by no means dispense with passions1 vices and malignities4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,h4,t4,h41 section #dgg4 #bfc4 ,it is here demonstrated with rare cogency and conclusiveness that war is not only a factor1 but the main factor1 in true1 genuine ,kultur--not only its creator but its preserver4444 ,although the author thus recognizes war as an element in the divine world-order1 he by no means ignores the blessings of peace1 as the second factor in true1 genuine ,kultur1 in a certain measure complementary to war4--,berliner neueste ,nachrichten1 #bdth ,december1 #aiab1 in review of ,der ,krieg als ,kulturfaktor1 by ,,dr4 ,,schmidt1 of ,gibichenfels4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #bj4 #bfd4 ,no sooner are airships invented than the ,general ,staffs set to work to devise methods of applying them to destruction4444 ,thus every achievement of ,kultur#bg and of the human intelligence is only a means to more barbarous processes of war3 and yet the pacifists see in the progress of the human intelligence a guarantee of world-peace6--,l4 ,,gumplowicz1 ,s4,i4,u41 p4 #afa4 #bfe4 ,i must first of all examine the aspirations for peace1 which seem to dominate our age and threaten to poison the soul of the ,german people4444 ,i must try to prove that war is not merely a necessary element in the life of nations1 but an indispensable factor of ,kultur1 in which a truly civilized nation finds the highest expression of strength and vitality4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ad4 #bff4 ,if the ,twilight of the ,gods that has now so long brooded over the ,european race and ,kultur is at last to vanish before the light of morning1 then we ,germans in particular must no longer see in war our destroyer 444 but must recognize in it our healer1 our physician4--,tgliche ,rundschau1 #abth ,november1 #aiab4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #bc4 #bfg4 ,our own country1 by employing its military powers1 has attained a degree of ,kultur which it never could have reached by the methods of peaceful development4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #aai4 #bfh4 ,war is to us only a means1 but the state of preparation for war is more than a means1 it is an end4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,z4,d4,v41 p4 #abf4 ,see also ,nos4 #hd1 #ia4 ,blood and ,iron4 #bfi4 ,the time for petty politics is past2 the next century#bh will bring the struggle for the dominion of the world--the compulsion to great politics4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,b4,g4,e41 section #bjh4 #bgj4 ,i greet all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing1 which will1 above all1 bring heroism again into honour6--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,j4,w41 section #bhc4 #bga4 ,general ,keim from ,berlin insisted that the path to ,german unity and power was not paved with sealing-wax1 printers' ink and parliamentary resolutions1 but marked by blood1 wounds and deeds of arms4 ,states could be maintained only by the means by which they were created4--,at meeting of ,pan-,german ,league1 ,augsburg1 ,september1 #aiab4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #gb4 #bgb4 ,it is only since the last war #ahgj that a sounder theory has arisen of the ,state and its military power4 ,without war no ,state could be4444 ,war1 therefore will endure to the end of history1 so long as there is multiplicity of ,states4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #fe4 #bgc4 ,we owe it to ,napoleon 444 that several warlike centuries1 which have not had their like in past history1 may now follow one another--in short1 that we have entered upon the classical age of war1 war at the same time scientific and popular1 on the grandest scale 7as regards means1 talents and discipline7 to which all coming millenniums will look back with envy and awe as a work of perfection--for the national movement out of which this martial glory springs1 is only the counter-choc against ,napoleon1 and would not have existed without him4 ,to him1 consequently1 one will one day be able to attribute the fact that man in ,europe has again got the upper hand of the merchant and the ,philistine4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,j4,w41 section #cfb4 #bgd4 ,what men tower highest in the history of the nation1 whom does the ,german heart cherish with the most ardent love8 ,goethe8 ,schiller8 ,wagner8 ,marx8 ,oh1 no--but ,barbarossa1 the great ,frederick1 ,blcher1 ,moltke1 ,bismarck1 the hard men of blood4 ,it is to them1 who offered up thousands of lives1 that the soul of the people goes out with tenderest affection1 with positively adoring gratitude4 ,because they did what now we ought to do4444 ,our holiest raptures of homage are paid to these ,titans of the ,blood-,deed4--,,dr4 ,w4 ,,fuchs1 in article on ,psychiatrie and ,politics1 in ,die ,post1 #bhth ,january1 #aiab4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #b4 #bge4 ,i must assert with emphasis that the cardinal sin of our whole policy has hitherto been that we have lost sight of the eternal truth3 ,,politics ,,mean ,,the ,,will ,,to ,,power4444 ,the history of the world teaches us that only those people have strongly asserted themselves who have without hesitation placed the ,will to ,power higher than the ,will to ,peace4--,,general ,,keim1 at meeting of ,central ,committee of ,pan-,german ,league1 ,munich1 ,april1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #gg4 #bgf4 ,this nation possesses an excess of vigour1 enterprise1 idealism1 and spiritual energy which qualifies it for the highest place2 but a malignant fairy laid on its cradle the most petty theoretical dogmatism4444 ,yet the heart of this people can always be won for great and noble aims1 even though such aims can only be attended by danger4444 ,an intense longing for a foremost place among the ,powers and for manly action fills our nation4 ,every vigorous utterance1 every bold political step of the ,government1 finds in the soul of the people a deeply-felt echo1 and loosens the bonds which fetter all their forces4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #bef4 #bgg4 ,war does not depend on the human will1 but is for the most part an ineluctable1 elementary happening1 a dmonic power forcing itself upon us1 against which all written treaties1 all peace conferences and humanitarian agitations1 come pitifully to wreck4--,,general ,,keim1 at meeting of the ,german ,defence ,league1 ,cassel1 ,february1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #hb4 ,war ,necessary to ,germany4 #bgh4 ,if the health and life of ,germany require this mortal and terrible remedy war1 let us not hesitate to apply it1 so be it6 ,god is the ,judge4 ,i accept the awful responsibility4444 ,god never forsakes a good ,german4--,,amicus ,,patri1 ,a4,u4,k41 p4 #ae4 #bgh;a4 ,whoever loves his people and wishes to hasten the crisis of the present sickness1 must yearn for war as the awakener of all that is good1 healthy and strong in the nation4--,d4 ,,frymann1 ,w4,i4,k4,w41 p4 #ec4 #bgi4 ,the duties and obligations of the ,german people 444 cannot be fulfilled without drawing the sword4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ae4 #bhj4 ,it is for social as much as for national and political reasons that we must fix our minds incessantly upon war2 may the first ten or twenty years of the twentieth century bring it to us1 for we have need of it6--,d4,b4,b41 p4 #aia4 #bha4 ,it must be regarded as a quite unthinkable proposition that an agreement between ,france and ,germany can be negotiated before the question between them has been once more decided by arms4--,,general ,v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ia4 #bhb4 ,in one way or another we must square our account with ,france if we wish for a free hand in our international policy4444 ,france must be so completely crushed that she can never again come across our path4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #aje4 #bhc4 ,a pacific agreement with ,england is a will-o'-the-wisp which no serious ,german statesman would trouble to follow4 ,we must always keep the possibility of war with ,england before our eyes1 and arrange our political and military plans accordingly4--,,general ,v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ii4 #bhd4 ,since the struggle is1 as appears on a thorough investigation of the international question1 necessary and inevitable1 we must fight it out1 cost what it may4444 ,we have fought in the last great wars for our national union and our position among the ,powers of ,europe2 we must now decide whether we wish to develop into and maintain a ,world ,empire1 and procure for ,german spirit and ,german ideas that fit recognition which has been hitherto withheld from them4--,,general ,v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ajc4 #bhe4 ,if we wish to compete further with them the other ,powers a policy which our population and our civilization both entitle and compel us to adopt1 we must not hold back in the hard struggle for the sovereignty of the world4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #gi4 #bhe;a4 ,all that other nations attained in centuries of natural development--political union1 colonial possessions1 naval power1 international trade--was denied to our nation until quite recently4 ,what we now wish to attain must be fought for1 and won1 against a superior force of hostile interests and powers4--,,general ,v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #hd4 #bhf4 ,since almost every part of the globe is inhabited1 new territory must1 as a rule1 be obtained at the cost of its possessors--that is to say1 by conquest1 which thus becomes a law of necessity4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ba4 #bhg4 ,success is necessary to gain influence over the masses1 and this influence can only be obtained by continually appealing to the national imagination and enlisting its interest in great universal ideas and great national ambitions4444 ,we ,germans have a far greater and more urgent duty towards civilization to perform than the ,great ,asiatic ,power4 ,we1 like the ,japanese1 can only fulfil it by the sword4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #beh4 ,war need not be ,defensive4 #bhh4 ,ye say it is the good cause which halloweth even war8 ,i say unto you1 it is the good war which halloweth every cause4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,z41 ,war and ,warriors4 #bhi4 ,we must not think merely of external foes who compel us to fight4 ,a war may seem to be forced upon a statesman by the condition of home affairs1 or by the pressure of the whole political situation4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ch4 #bij4 ,the moral duty of the ,state towards its citizens is to begin the struggle while the prospects of success and the political circumstances are still tolerably favourable4 ,when1 on the other hand1 the hostile ,states are weakened or hampered by affairs at home and abroad1 but its own warlike strength shows elements of superiority1 it is imperative to use the favourable circumstances to promote its own political aims4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ec4 #bia4 ,the lessons of history confirm the view that wars which have been deliberately provoked by far-seeing statesmen have had the happiest results4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #de4 ,see also ,no4 #chb4 ,contempt for ,peace4 #bib4 ,ye shall love peace as a means to new wars--and the short peace more than the long4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,z41 ,war and ,warriors4 #bib;a4 ,only over the black gate of the cemetery 444 can we read the words1 ,eternal peace for all peoples4 ,for peoples who live and strive1 the only maxim and motto must be ,eternal ,war4--,k4 ,,wagner1 ,k41 p4 #bag4 #bic4 ,the reception of the ,tsar's ,peace ,manifesto was anything but friendly4444 ,the learned world1 also1 was for the most part hostile to the idea underlying the ,manifesto1 and such a man as ,mommsen could even1 amid great applause1 characterize the proposed ,conference as a misprint in world-history4--,a4,h4 ,,fried1 ,h4,d4,f41 ,vol4 ,i41 p4 #bje4 #bid4 ,the ,german who loves his people1 and believes in the greatness and the future of our home 444 must not let himself be lazily sung to sleep by the peace-lullabies of the ,utopians4--,,kronprinz ,,wilhelm1 ,d4,i4,w41 ,chapter ,i4 #bie4 ,a long peace not only leads to enervation1 but allows of the existence of a multitude of pitiful1 trembling miserable-creatures ,notexistenzen 444 who cling fast to life with loud cries about their right to exist1 block the way for real strength1 make the air foetid1 and altogether defile the blood of the nation4 ,war brings real strength into honour again4--,j4 ,,burckhardt1 ,w4,b41 p4 #afd4 #bif4 ,let us laugh with all our lungs at the old women in trousers who are afraid of war1 and therefore complain that it is cruel and hideous4 ,no1 war is beautiful4 ,its august grandeur elevates the heart of man high above all that is commonplace and earthly4--,o4 ,v4 ,,gottberg1 in ,weekly ,paper for the ,youth of ,germany1 #beth ,january1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #b4 #big4 ,efforts to secure peace are extraordinarily detrimental to the national health so soon as they influence politics4--,,general ,v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #bh4 #bih4 ,people are too much given to sentimental maunderings4 ,to what practical end had the vaunted ,hague ,peace ,meetings led8 ,the #ajj1jjj marks spent on the ,peace ,palace would much better have been devoted to the support of needy veterans4--,,general ,,keim1 at meeting of the ,german ,defence ,league1 ,cassel1 ,february1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #hb4 #bii4 ,the worst of hypocrisies is the participation by ,germany in the ,hague ,conference4444 ,we should do better to leave that farce to those who1 for centuries1 have made of hypocrisy an industry and a habit4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,z4,d4,v41 p4 #acb4 #cjj4 ,we can1 fortunately1 assert the impossibility of these efforts after peace ever attaining their ultimate object in a world bristling with arms1 where a healthy egoism still directs the policy of most countries4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #cf4 #cja4 ,the so-called world-peace is not order1 but chaos4 ,it means in the first place the forcible dominion of capitalists and the proletariat 6 over the productive powers of the nations1 and lastly1 in the struggle of all against all1 a return to those prehistoric conditions out of which1 in the opinion of our cosmopolitans1 all our culture took its rise4--,der ,reichsbote1 #adth ,march1 #aiac4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #bf4 #cjb4 ,a people of parasites like the ,jews strives1 with all the instincts of its craving for power and for wealth1 towards the abolition of war1 for if that could be effected its work of disintegrating the living bodies of the nations could go on unhindered4--,f4 ,,lange1 ,r4,d41 p4 #aeh 7#ahic74 #cjc4 ,as for the whinings of ,m4 de ,bloch and ,frau v4 ,suttner with regard to the horrors of modern war1 they are imbecilities to which we can make a statistical answer4 ,statistics prove that two years of peace cost ,germany more violent deaths 7suicides1 accidents1 murders7 than the whole war of #ahgj-ga cost us--that war without parallel4#bi--;,d4,b4,b41 p4 #bjf4 #cjd4 ,sentimental maunderings about humanity and peace were bringing us face to face with the danger that cosmopolitanism might overshadow ,germanism1 and that the ,nobel ,prize might actually be offered to our ,kaiser4--,,excellenz v4 ,,wrochem1 at meeting of ,pan-,german ,league1 ,augsburg1 ,september1 #aiab4 ,,nippold1 ,d4,c41 p4 #gb4 ,see also ,nos4 #bag1 #bdd1 #bec1 #cad1 #caf1 #cag1 #cai4 ,militarism ,exultant4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #cje4 ,i have lived for forty-five years mainly in the society of ,germans1 and thirty years exclusively in ,german countries 444 and my testimony is this3 in the whole of ,germany there has not been for the past forty-three years a single man who has wished for war--not one4 ,whoever denies this1 lies4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #aa4 #cje;a4 ,it is only in war that we find the action of true heroism1 the realization of which on earth is the care of militarism4 ,that is why war appears to us1 who are filled with militarism1 as in itself a holy thing1 as the holiest thing on earth4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #hh4 #cjf4 ,every age requires its war1 lest civilization stagnate4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #aaf4 #cjg4 ,bestir you1 my comrades6 ,to horse1 to horse6 ,and away to the field and to freedom4444#cj ,truly a splendid song4 ,it thrills through all our muscles1 and makes us feel as though we ourselves would like once more to take our share in a joyous fight4--,,prof4 ,u4 v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 pt4 ,i41 p4 #d4 ,compare ,no4 #bda4 #cjh4 ,anti-militarism was enraptured4 ,what we had laboriously built up through the cultivation of the warlike spirit sank to ruins4444 ,god be eternally praised6 ,the great masses of the people would have nothing to say to these doctrines of the evil of war4444 ,it appeared as clear as daylight that we had always been right1 and that the warlike spirit1 that deepest and purest joy of the great heart of our people1 was unshaken and unchanged4 ,the warlike spirit1 the love of war and the craving for battle1 was no imaginary characteristic of our people--no1 and a thousand times no6--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #g4 #cji4 ,the tempest of patriotic exaltation is sweeping through the ,german land1 and ,treitschke's solemn pronouncement as to war being a fountain of health for the people has all of a sudden risen into renewed estimation4 ,the war has swept the tedious patience-game of the diplomats off the table and set the brazen dice of the battlefield rolling in its stead4--,f4 v4 ,,liszt1 ,e4,m4,s41 ,geleitwort1 p4 #a4 #caj4 ,our long years of peace1 full of honest1 but1 alas6 also of dishonest1 work1 had brought us no blessing4 ,we breathed again when the war came4--,h4 v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,g4,z4,k41 p4 #fa4 #caa4 ,over the blood of the fallen glows the flame of poetic enthusiasm4 ,a war without dead and wounded is a life without work1 without aim and without hope4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #g4 ,compare ,nos4 #bej1 #bed4 #cab4 ,when the summons to war rang out1 in thousands and thousands of families people searched the ,holy ,scriptures1 to know what was ,god's message for the event of war2 and the dear ,bible-,book1 which never leaves us in the lurch1 brought to the searcher strength1 counsel and consolation4 ,the ,old ,testament1 under-valued by many1 now became1 all of a sudden1 the book for everyday reading4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #e4 #cac4 ,the order in which the nations take rank cannot be determined in time of peace1 by standards of reason1 not only because the majority of overfed ruminants would always keep the ,lion encaged1 but because only in war can the ,lion prove his lionlikeness to others1 and--what is still more important--to himself4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #c4 #cad4 ,materialism and millionairism were playing havoc in ,germany4 ,at last the spectre of materialism penetrated into the palaces of the dynastic leaders of our people1 and from that day began the preaching of the blessings of everlasting peace4 ,at the same time there began a hateful campaign of slander against all true patriots1 against all ethical champions of war 7,ethiker des ,krieges47--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #f4 #cae4 ,the laurels of this bloodless victory the victory of the war spirit belong to that part of the ,german teaching profession which has remained true to its patriotic duties6--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #h4 #caf4 ,though clever writers sometimes speak of the ,kaiser's romantic proclivities1 his earnest searching of the ,scriptures has brought him to such a sober way of thinking that he has steered clear of all ,utopias1 and has not allowed himself to be led astray by the empty dreams of pacifist enthusiasm4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #af4 #cag4 ,we have no knowledge of pacifist utterances of representative ,germans of any time4 ,the wretched book of the aged ,kant1 on ,perpetual ,peace 444 is the only inglorious exception4 ,such utterances would indeed amount to a sin against the holy spirit of ,germanism1 which1 from the depths of its heroism1 cannot possibly arrive at any view other than a high appreciation of war4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ic4 #cah4 ,one or other of the ,english swashbucklers has recently said that the ,allies are not fighting against the ,germany of ,beethoven and ,goethe1 but against the ,germany of ,bismarck1 of which they have had too much4444 ,but ,faust and the ,ninth ,symphony strongly resemble the mighty works of the great artsmith1 ,bismarck4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #fa4 #cai4 ,how far our classic age 444 was removed from a depreciation and rejection of war is shown by the attitude assumed by a spirit so pathetically calm and aloof as ,jean ,paul1 who nevertheless called war the strengthening iron cure of humanity1 and maintained1 indeed1 that this held good more for the side which suffers than for that which wins4 ,the fever caused by the wounds of war was1 in his opinion1 better than the jail fever of a loathsome peace4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #id4 #cbj4 ,it is monstrous that even high spiritual dignitaries can be found1 in our days1 to tell their adherents that war is a misfortune1 and that such utterances can actually be printed by the official press4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #g4 #cba4 ,just imagine our humanity of to-day--,i mean1 of course1 our ,german humanity--without its military education4 ,non-,german humanity gives us some idea of what that would mean6--,h4 v4 ,,wolzogen1 ,g4,z4,k41 p4 #fj4 #cbb4 ,if we are to carry on the warlike education of our people--and we are resolved to do so--then we by that very fact affirm our constant readiness again to enter upon a war1 as soon as our honour1 our inward or outward growth1 or the expansive tendencies rooted in the inmost nature of our people1 demand it4--,,pastor ,d4 ,,baumgarten1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #bd1 p4 #ag4 #cbc4 ,the incomparably greater efficiency of army administration1 even in questions of civil life1 has everywhere made a deep impression during the present war1 and has opened the eyes of many4 ,one has constantly heard people exclaim3 ,oh1 it could only continue after the war6--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,p4,i41 p4 #aaf4 #cbd4 ,oh1 that ,germany would learn from this war to send out soldiers only--,generals and ex-officers of the ,general ,staff--as ,german diplomatists1 ambassadors and consuls6--,k4,l4,a4 ,,schmidt1 ,d4,e4,e41 p4 #ag4 #cbe4 ,we must not look for permanent peace as a result of this war4 ,heaven defend ,germany from that4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #ai4 ,see also ,nos4 #ia1 #aib;a1 #aie1 #bag4 ,,footnotes3 #bf ,down to this point ,burckhardt is condensing a paragraph from ,ernst v4 ,lasaulx1 ,philosophie der ,geschichte1 #ahef p4 #he4 #bg ,quoted in original4 #bh ,written in #ahhe4 #bi ,klaus ,wagner 7,krieg1 p4 #bbc7 has a long statistical argument to the same effect4 ,he says that #da1jjj men lost their lives in #ahgj-ga1 and estimates on this basis that1 in a repetition of that war1 the ,germany of his own time 7#aijf7 would lose only one man in every #a1fjj of her population4 ,the confident assumption that the next war could be nothing but #ahgj over again underlies all ,german speculation on the subject4 #cj ,from ,schiller's ,wallensteins ,lager4 ,,iv ,,ruthlessness ,,iv ,,ruthlessness 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #cbf4 ,war is an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy1 to accomplish our will4444 ,insignificant limitations1 hardly worthy of mention1 which it imposes on itself1 under the name of the law of nations1 accompany this violence without notably enfeebling it4--,,general ,c v4 ,,clausewitz1 ,v4,k41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #d4 #cbg4 ,i warn you against pity3 from it will one day arise a heavy cloud for men4 ,verily1 ,i am weatherwise6--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,z4 ,of the ,pitiful4 #cbh4 ,the ,germans let the primitive ,prussian tribes decide whether they should be put to the sword or thoroughly ,germanized4 ,cruel as these processes of transformation may be1 they are a blessing for humanity4 ,it makes for health that the nobler race should absorb the inferior stock4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i1 p4 #aba4 #cbi4 ,much that is dreadful and inhuman in history1 much that one hardly likes to believe1 is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different persons--the former does not behold the sight1 therefore does not experience the strong impression on the imagination2 the latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,h4,t4,h41 section #aja4 #ccj4 ,the warrior has need of passion4 ,it must not 444 be regarded as a necessary evil2 nor condemned as a regrettable consequence of physical contact2 nor must we seek to restrain it and curb it as a savage and brutal force4--,,general v4 ,,hartmann1 ,d4,r41 ,vol4 ,,xiii41 p4 #abb4 #cca4 ,one must 444 resist all sentimental weakness3 life is in its essence appropriation1 injury1 the overpowering of whatever is foreign to us and weaker than ourselves1 suppression1 hardness1 the forcing upon others of our own forms1 the incorporation of others1 or1 at the very least and mildest1 their exploitation4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,b4,g4,e41 section #bei4 #ccb4 ,we may depend upon the re-,germanizing of ,alsace1 but not of ,livonia and ,kurland4 ,there no other course is open to us but to keep the subject race in as uncivilized a condition as possible1 and thus prevent them from becoming a danger to their handful of conquerors4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i1 p4 #abb4 #ccc4 ,a morality of the ruling class has for its principle that one has duties only to one's equals2 that one may act towards beings of a lower rank1 towards all that is foreign1 just as seems good to one 444 and in any case beyond good and evil4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,b4,g4,e41 section #bfj4 #ccd4 ,the argument of war permits every belligerent ,state to have recourse to all means which enable it to attain the object of the war2 still1 practice has taught the advisability of allowing in one's own interest the introduction of a limitation in the use of certain methods of war1 and a total renunciation of the use of others4444 ,if in the following work the expression the law of war is used1 it must be understood that by it is meant only 444 a limitation of arbitrary behaviour which custom and conventionality1 human friendliness and a calculating egoism have erected1 but for the observance of which there exists no express sanction1 but only the fear of reprisals decides4--,g4,w4,b41 pp4 #eb1 #ec4 #cce4 ,a new type of philosophers and commanders will some time or other be needed1 at the very idea of which everything that has existed in the way of occult1 terrible and benevolent 6 beings might look pale and dwarfed4 ,the image of such leaders hovers before our eyes4444 ,the conditions which one would have partly to create and partly to utilize for their genesis include a transvaluation of values1 under the new pressure and hammer of which a conscience should be steeled and a heart transformed to brass1 so as to bear the weight of such responsibility4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,b4,g4,e41 section #bjc4 #ccf4 ,since the tendency of thought of the last century was dominated essentially by humanitarian considerations which not infrequently degenerated into sentimentality and weak emotionalism1 there have not been wanting attempts to influence the development of the usages of war in a way which was in fundamental contradiction with the nature of war and its object4 ,attempts of this kind will also not be wanting in the future1 the more so as these agitations have found a kind of moral recognition in some provisions of the ,geneva ,convention and the ,brussels and ,hague ,conferences4444 ,the danger can only be met by a thorough study of war itself4 ,by steeping himself in military history an officer will be able to guard himself against excessive humanitarian notions1 it will teach him that certain severities are indispensable to war1 nay1 more1 that the only true humanity very often lies in a ruthless application of them4--,g4,w4,b41 pp4 #ed1 #ee4 #ccg4 ,those very men who are so strictly kept within bounds by good manners 444 who1 in their behaviour to one another1 show themselves so inventive in consideration1 self-control1 delicacy1 loyalty1 pride and friendship--those very men are to the outside world1 to things foreign and to foreign countries1 little better than so many uncaged beasts of prey4 ,here they enjoy liberty from all social restraint 444 and become rejoicing monsters1 who perhaps go on their way1 after a hideous sequence of murder1 conflagration1 violation1 torture1 with as much gaiety and equanimity as if they had merely taken part in some student gambols4444 ,deep in the nature of all these noble races there lurks unmistakably the beast of prey1 the blond beast1 lustfully roving in search of booty and victory4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,g4,m41 i41 ,,ii4 #cch4 ,however much it may ruffle human feeling to compel a man to do harm to his own ,fatherland1 and indirectly to fight his own troops1 none the less no army operating in an enemy's country will altogether renounce this expedient4--,g4,w4,b41 p4 #aag4 #cci4 ,a still more severe measure is the compulsion of the inhabitants to furnish information about their own army1 its strategy1 its resources1 and its military secrets4 ,the majority of writers of all nations are unanimous in their condemnation of this measure4 ,nevertheless it cannot be entirely dispensed with2 doubtless it will be applied with regret1 but the argument of war will frequently make it necessary4--,g4,w4,b41 p4 #aah4 #cdj4 ,that the lambs should bear a grudge against the great birds of prey is in no way surprising2 but that is no reason why we should blame the great birds of prey for picking up the lambs4444 ,to demand of strength that it should not manifest itself as strength1 that it should not be a will for overcoming1 for overthrowing1 for mastery1 a thirst for enemies1 for struggles and triumphs1 is as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should manifest itself as strength4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,g4,m41 i41 #ac4 #cda4 ,it is a gratuitous illusion to suppose that modern war does not demand far more brutality1 far more violence1 and an action far more general than was formerly the case4--,,general v4 ,,hartmann1 ,d4,r41 ,vol4 xiv41 p4 #hi4 #cdb4 ,the enemy ,state must not be spared the want and wretchedness of war2 these are particularly useful in shattering its energy and subduing its will4--,,general v4 ,,hartmann1 ,d4,r41 ,vol4 xiii41 p4 #dei4 #cdc4 ,we 444 believe that man's ,will to ,life had to be intensified into unconditional ,will to ,power2 we hold that hardness1 violence1 slavery1 danger in the street and in the heart1 secrecy1 stoicism1 arts of temptation and devilry of all kinds2 that everything evil1 terrible1 tyrannical1 wild-beast-like and serpent-like in man contributes to the elevation of the species just as much as its opposite--and in saying this we do not even say enough4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,b4,g4,e41 section #dd4 #cdd4 ,even if there were no question of vengeance1 even if we were not demanding reparation for ancient wrongs 444 the crime 7,frevel7 of opposing the development of ,germany is so great that the most trenchant measures are scarcely a sufficient punishment for it6--,d4,b4,b41 p4 #bad4 #cde4 ,whoever enters upon a war in future1 will do well to look only to his own interests1 and pay no heed to any so-called international law4 ,he will do well to act without consideration and without scruple1 and this holds good in the case of a war with ,england4#ca--;,d4,b4,b41 p4 #bad4 #cdf4 ,hatred1 delight in mischief1 rapacity and ambition1 and whatever else is called evil1 belong to the marvellous economy of the conservation of the race4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,j4,w41 section #a4 #cdg4 ,individual persons may be harshly dealt with when an example is made of them1 intended to serve as a warning4444 ,whenever a national war breaks out1 terrorism becomes a necessary military principle4--,,general v4 ,,hartmann1 ,d4,r41 ,vol4 ,,xiii1 p4 #dfb4 #cdh4 ,terrorism is seen to be a relatively gentle procedure1 useful to keep in a state of obedience the masses of the people4--,,general ,v4 ,,hartmann1 ,d4,r41 ,vol4 ,,xiii1 p4 #dfb4 #cdi4 ,to protect oneself against attack and injuries from the inhabitants1 and to employ ruthlessly the necessary means of defence and intimidation is obviously not only a right but a duty of the staff of the army4--,g4,w4,b41 p4 #abj4 #cej4 ,the more pitiless is the v victis1 the greater is the security of the ensuing peace4 ,in the days of old1 conquered peoples were completely annihilated4 ,to-day this is physically impracticable1 but one can imagine conditions which should approach very closely to total destruction4--,d4,b4,b41 p4 #bad4 ,compare ,nos4 #aif1 #aig4 #cea4 ,international law is in no way opposed to the exploitation of the crimes of third parties 7assassination1 incendiarism1 robbery and the like7 to the prejudice of the enemy4--,g4,w4,b41 p4 #he4 #ceb4 ,in reality the evil impulses are just in as high a degree expedient1 indispensable1 and conservative of the species as the good--only1 their function is different4--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,j4,w41 section #d4 #cec4 ,if the small nations in question have nothing ,germanic in them1 and are therefore foreign to our ,kultur1 the question at once arises3 ,do they stand in the way of our expansion1 or do they not8 ,in the latter case1 let them develop as their nature prescribes2 in the former case1 it would be folly to spare them1 for they would be like a wedge in our flesh1 which we refrained from extracting only for their own sake4 ,if we found ourselves forced to break up the historical form of the nation1 in order to separate its racial elements1 taking what belongs to our race#cb and rejecting what is foreign to it1 we ought not therefore to have any moral scruples or to think ourselves inhuman4 7,in this connection ,i refer the reader to my later chapter on humanity#cc74--;,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #acj4 #ced4 ,article #dj of the ,declaration of ,brussels requires that requisitions 444 shall bear a direct relation to the capacity and resources of a country1 and1 indeed1 the justification for this condition would be willingly recognized by every one in theory1 but it will scarcely ever be observed in practice4 ,in cases of necessity1 the needs of an army will alone decide4--,g4,w4,b41 p4 #acd4 #cee4 ,in spite of his delight in mere success1 in spite of his recklessness in the choice of men and methods1 in spite of all the harshness and brutality which his nature must acquire1 the true statesman displays a disinterestedness which cannot fail to impress4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #eh4 #cef4 ,verily1 ye good and just2 much in you is laughable1 and most of all your fear of what hath hitherto been called devil6 444 ,i guess that you will call my ,superman devil6--,,fr4 ,,nietzsche1 ,z4 ,of ,manly ,prudence4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #ceg4 ,our troops are assured of their mission2 and they recognize clearly1 too1 that the truest compassion lies in taking the sternest measures1 in order to bring the war itself to an early close4--,,pastor ,g4 ,,traub1 ,d4,k4,u4,s41 p4 #f4 #ceh4 ,how much further would ,germany have got in ,alsace-,lorraine1 if it had modelled its policy on ,cromwell's treatment of ,ulster1 and had not been misled by weak humanitarianism6--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ic4 #cei4 ,in the midst of this bewildering uproar1 the soul again learns the truth of the old doctrine3 it is the whole man that matters1 and not his individual acts2 it is the soul that gives value to the deeds1 not the deeds to the soul4--,,pastor ,g4 ,,traub1 ,d4,k4,u4,s41 p4 #f4 ,compare ,nietzsche1 passim4 #cfj4 ,we are not only compelled to accept the war that is forced upon us 444 but are even compelled to carry on this war with a cruelty1 a ruthlessness1 an employment of every imaginable device1 unknown in any previous war4--,,pastor ,d4 ,,baumgarten1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #bd1 p4 #g4 #cfa4 ,whoever cannot prevail upon himself to approve from the bottom of his heart the sinking of the ,lusitania--whoever cannot conquer his sense of the gigantic cruelty 7ungeheure ,grausamkeit7 to unnumbered perfectly innocent victims 444 and give himself up to honest delight at this victorious exploit of ,german defensive power--him we judge to be no true ,german4--,,pastor ,d4 ,,baumgarten1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #bd1 p4 #g4cd ,see also ,no4 #dbc4 ,,footnotes3 #ca ,observe that these two utterances are not shrieks of the war frenzy1 but are the reflections of a ,german patriot in the year of grace #aijj4 #cb ,the author does not explain how ,germanic elements are to be discovered in peoples which he has assumed to have nothing ,germanic in them4 #cc ,this chapter is an ingenious disquisition to prove that humanity may be all very well for inferior races1 but that ,germanism cannot be hampered by its restraints4 #cd ,this and the previous extract are taken from an address on the ,sermon on the ,mount6 ,v ,,machiavelism ,v ,,machiavelism ,mendacity and ,faithlessness4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #cfb4 ,a stock of inherited conceptions of integrity and morality is a necessity for government4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #cag4 #cfc4 ,when one really meditates a war1 one must say no word about it2 one must envelop one's designs in a profound mystery2 then1 suddenly and without warning1 one leaps like a thief in the night--as the ,japanese destroyers leapt upon the unsuspecting ,port ,arthur1 as ,frederick ,,ii4 threw himself upon ,silesia4#ce--;,a4 ,,wirth1 ,u4,a4,p41 p4 #cf4 #cfd4 ,the brilliant ,florentine was the first to infuse into politics the great idea that the ,state is ,power4 ,the consequences of this thought are far-reaching4 ,it is the truth1 and those who dare not face it had better leave politics alone4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #he4 #cfe4 ,as real might can alone guarantee the endurance of peace and security1 and as war is the best test of real might1 war contains the promise of future peace4 ,but it must if possible womglich be a righteous and honourable war1 something in the nature of a war of defence4--,j4 ,,burckhardt1 ,w4,b41 p4 #afd4 #cff4 ,it was ,machiavelli who first laid down the maxim that when the ,state's salvation is at stake there must be no enquiry into the purity of the means employed2 only let the ,state be secured and no one will condemn them4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #hc4 #cfg4 ,the relations between two ,states must often be termed a latent war1 which is provisionally being waged in peaceful rivalry4 ,such a position justifies the employment of hostile methods1 cunning and deception1 just as war itself does4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #di4 #cfh4 ,the statesman has no right to warm his hands with smug self-laudation at the smoking ruins of his ,fatherland1 and comfort himself by saying1 ,i have never lied2 this is the monkish type of virtue4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol i41 p4 #ajd4 #cfi4 ,belligerent ,states are always and exclusively in a pure state of nature1 in which there cannot possibly be any question or right or law4--,e4 v4 ,,hartmann1 quoted by ,,ein ,,deutscher1 ,w4,k4,b4,m41 p4 #ab4 #cgj4 ,how markedly ,bismarck's grand frankness in large matters stands out amidst all his craft in single instances4#cf--;,h4 ,v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #ij4 #cga4 ,let it be the task of our diplomacy so to shuffle the cards that we may be attacked by ,france1 for then there would be reasonable prospect that ,russia for a time would remain neutral4444 ,but we must not hope to bring about this attack by waiting passively4 ,neither ,france1 nor ,russia1 nor ,england need to attack in order to further their interests4444 ,if we wish to bring about an attack by our opponents1 we must initiate an active policy which1 without attacking ,france1 will so prejudice her interests or those of ,england1 that both these ,states would feel themselves compelled to attack us4 ,opportunities for such procedure are offered both in ,africa and in ,europe4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #bhj4 #cgb4 ,when an unconscientious speculator is telling lies upon the ,stock ,exchange he is thinking only of his own profit1 but when a diplomat is guilty of obscuring facts in a diplomatic negotiation he is thinking of his country4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol i41 p4 #ia4 #cgc4 ,it is natural1 and within certain limits1 politically a matter of course1 that the ,german ,emperor should have thought that1 until ,germany had a strong fleet1 we must try to keep on good terms with ,england1 and even1 on occasion1 to make concessions4--,,graf ,e4 ,v4 ,,reventlow1 ,d4,a4,p41 p4 #fj4 #cgd4 ,no ,state can pledge its future to another4 ,it knows no arbiter1 and draws up all its treaties with this implied reservation4444 ,moreover1 every sovereign ,state has the undoubted right to declare war at its pleasure1 and is consequently entitled to repudiate its treaties4--,h4 v4 ,,treitschke1 p4 i41 #bh4 #cge4 ,the question of alliances in war is always an open one1 for circumstances may at any moment arise such as ,bismarck referred to when he said3 ,no power is bound or1 we will add1 entitled#cg to sacrifice important interests of its own on the altar of faithfulness to an alliance6--,,graf ,e4 v4 ,,reventlow1 ,d4,a4,p41 p4 #bb4 #cgf4 ,it was a most serious mistake in ,german policy that a final settling of accounts with ,france was not effected at a time when the state of international affairs was favourable and success might confidently have been expected4444 ,this policy somewhat resembles the supineness for which ,england has herself to blame1 when she refused her assistance to the ,southern ,states in the ,american ,war of ,secession4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #bci4 #cgg4 ,since ,england committed the unpardonable blunder1 from her point of view1 of not supporting the ,southern ,states in the ,american ,war of ,secession1 a rival to ,england's world-wide ,empire has appeared on the other side of the ,atlantic4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ie4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #cgh4 ,perhaps the greatest danger for us ,germans--greatest because it does not threaten us from without1 but within our own hearts--is our magnanimity4 ,o1 there is something glorious about this virtue1 and we ,germans may be quite particularly proud of possessing it4444 ,but woe to the people which does not stand as one man behind the statesman who1 by dint of hard struggles with his own soul1 has fought his way to the only true standpoint--namely1 that in international relations magnanimity is wholly out of place1 and that here the voice of expediency can alone be heard4--,,ein ,,deutscher1 ,w4,k4,b4,m41 p4 #ab4 #cgi4 ,through our policy of peace 444 we deprive ourselves of the right of determining the time for bringing about a decision by force of arms1 as ,bismarck did in three wars1 in which1 thanks to his diplomatic adroitness1 he forced upon his adversaries the outward appearance of declaring war1 while in reality ,prussia-,germany was the assailant4 ,bismarck is quoted in ,germany as having discouraged preventive wars4444 ,but we must not forget that the three great wars which ,bismarck waged were in fact preventive4 ,even in #ahgj the outbreak of war might have been stayed4 ,it was only the brilliant manipulation 7geniale ,fassung7 of the ,ems telegram that put ,france in the wrong and drove her into war1 just as ,bismarck had foreseen4--,k4 v4 ,,strantz1 ,e4,s4,v41 p4 #ch4 #chj4 ,for the will of the ,state1 no other principle exists but that of expediency 7,zweckmssigkeit71 which is at the same time selfishness2 not1 however1 the short-sighted selfishness commended by ,machiavelli1 but far-seeing1 shrewdly-calculating selfishness4--,,ein ,,deutscher1 ,w4,k4,b4,m41 p4 #aa4 #cha4 ,far-seeing selfishness does not exclude the endeavour to win the confidence of other nations1 which can be won only by honesty4 ,but this honesty1 at any rate on vital questions1 ought on no account to be carried to the pitch of inexpedient ,quixotism4 ,,ein ,,deutscher1 ,w4,k4,b4,m41 p4 #aa4 #chb4 ,war was in our eyes the most honourable and the holiest means of awakening the people from its dazed condition4 ,whether this war came as an aggressive or as a defensive war was1 in principle1 a matter of indifference4 ,that it came to us in the form of a war of defence was one of those historical strokes of luck which ,god vouchsafes to those peoples whom ,he loves4 ,the time has not yet come to enquire whether the leaders of ,german foreign policy took deliberate measures to place us in the attitude of defence which the masses always regard as more moral4 ,it may perhaps be so2 but it is far from impossible that the disinclination for war which placed certain high dignitaries of the ,german ,empire in constant opposition to the will of the people may have so far imposed upon our adversaries as to induce them to attack us4--,k4,a4 ,,kuhn1 ,w4,u4,w41 p4 #i4 #chc4 ,treaties under international law are no more than the formulated expression of the existent relations of power between ,states4 ,if these relations of power have so far changed that the real or imaginary vital interests of one of the ,states demand and render possible the alteration of such treaties1 it is the simple duty of the leader of that ,state to effect the alteration by all conceivable means1 so long as the risk does not appear greater than the anticipated advantage4--,,ein ,,deutscher1 ,w4,k4,b4,m41 p4 #g4 ,might is ,right4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #chd4 ,the law of the strong holds good everywhere4--,,general ,v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ah4 #che4 ,what does right matter to me8 ,i have no need of it4 ,what ,i can acquire by force1 that ,i possess and enjoy2 what ,i cannot obtain1 ,i renounce1 and ,i set up no pretensions to indefeasible right4444 ,i have the right to do what ,i have the power to do4--,m4 ,,stirner1 ,d4,e4,s4,e41 p4 #bge4 #chf4 ,might is the supreme right1 and the dispute as to what is right is decided by the arbitrament of war4 ,war gives a biologically just decision4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #bc4 #chg4 ,let it not be said that every people has a right to its existence 7,bestand71 its speech1 c4 ,by making play with this principle1 one may put on a cheap appearance of civilization1 but only so long as the people in question 444 does not stand in the way of any more powerful people4--,j4,l4 ,,reimer1 ,e4,p4,d41 p4 #abi4 #chh4 ,it is a persistent struggle for possessions1 power and sovereignty that primarily governs the relations of one nation to another1 and right is respected so far only as it is compatible with advantage4--,,general v4 ,,bernhardi1 ,g4,n4,w41 p4 #ai4 #chi4 ,the earth is constantly being divided anew among the strong and powerful4 ,the smaller peoples disappear2 they are necessarily absorbed by their larger neighbours4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,hasse1 ,d4,g41 p4 #afi4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 #cij4 ,it is a base calumny to attribute to us the brutal principle that might is equivalent to right4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,meinecke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #bi1 p4 #bc4 #cia4 ,in the age of the most tremendous mobilization of physical and spiritual forces the world has ever seen1 we proclaim--no1 we do not proclaim it1 but it reveals itself--the ,religion of ,strength4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,deissmann1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #i1 p4 #bd4 ,see also ,nos4 #hd1 #dii4 ,,footnotes3 #ce ,frederick the ,great's principle was3 ,when kings want war they begin it1 and leave learned professors to come after and prove that it was just4 #cf ,in other words1 ,bismarck always told the truth when it was absolutely convenient4 #cg ,reventlow's interpolation4 ,,vi ,,england1 ,,france ,,belgium--,,especially ,,england ,,vi ,,england1 ,,france ,,belgium--,,especially ,,england ,the ,false ,islanders4 7,,before ,,the ,,war47 #cib4 ,the climate1 the want of wine1 and lack of beautiful scenery1 have all been obstacles in the way of ,english ,kultur4 ,h4 ,v4 ,,treitschke1 ,p41 ,vol4 i41 p4 #bbb4 #cic4 ,the ,english nationalism is also cosmopolitanism3 the service of his own nation appears to the ,englishman the service of mankind4 ,for he regards his own nation as the mistress of the highest ,kultur-treasures1 to which other nations look up in order to admire and imitate4 ,thus ,anglification is identified with the furtherance of human ,kultur4--,g4 v4 ,,schulze-,,gaevernitz1 ,b4,i41 p4 #di4 #cid4 ,england's strength resides in arrogant self-esteem1 ,germany's greatness in the modest appreciation of everything foreign4 ,england is self-seeking to the point of insanity1 ,germany is just even to self-depreciation4--,,th4 ,,fontane 7about #ahed71 ,e4,b41 p4 #chi4 #cie4 ,at the time of the illness of the ,emperor ,frederick1 ,treitschke1 at the end of a long speech1 summed up his sentiments in these words3 ,it must come to this that no ,german dog shall for evermore accept a piece of bread from the hand of an ,englishman4 ,these words1 uttered in an outburst of passion1 aroused no mirth1 but went to the heart of the audience4--,e4,b41 p4 #cie4 #cif4 ,after the ,boer ,war1 ,wildenbruch was done with ,england4444 ,she was dead for him1 and erased from the ,book of ,life4 ,all the contempt which now leads us to raise1 not the sword1 but the whip1 against that abortion compounded of low greed and shameless hypocrisy1 he then screamed out to the world in words which we could not even to-day make bitterer or more scathing4--,,prof4 ,b4 ,,litzmann1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #ab1 p4 #ac4 #cig4 ,it is just as ,schleiermacher said a hundred years ago3 ,these false islanders1 wrongly admired by many1 have no other watchword but gain and enjoyment4 ,they are never in earnest about anything that transcends practical utility4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #cg4 7,,after ,,july1 #aiad47 ,hymns of ,hate4 #cih4 ,the war has laid bare the ,british soul1 and a cold shudder goes through the ,germanic ,kultur-world4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #eb4 #cih;a4 ,a hundred times more glowing than our steel1 shall the mark of our contempt be branded upon thee4 ,wander thou as a lonely ,ahasuerus1 restless and unhappy1 over land and sea4 ,and if thou sayest1 ,i have flung the firebrand of hell from earth to heaven1 over sea and land1 ,i have struck ,god and mankind in the face1 and must now bear all their curses1 an everlasting stigma seared with fire1 then shalt thou speak the truth for the first time4--,,otto ,,riemasch1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #di4 #cii4 ,no people has done so much harm to civilization as the ,english4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #abb4 #djj4 ,king ,william ,i4 issued on ,august #aa1 #ahgj1 a proclamation to the effect that ,germany made war only against the armies of the enemy1 not against the civil population4444 ,there can be no doubt that1 in the case of an eventual landing in ,england1 the proclamation of the ,emperor ,william ,,ii4 to the ,english people would be couched in very different terms from those in which ,king ,william ,i4 addressed the people of ,france4--,a ,,hamburg ,,merchant1 ,e4,s4,s4,h41 pp4 #h1 #aj4 #dja4 ,england has nothing but the instincts of a beast of prey4 ,this alone can explain her foreign and domestic policy of the past decades4 ,her one object has been to increase her outward possessions and to let her own people starve4--,k4,l4,a4 ,,schmidt1 ,d4,e4,e41 p4 #f4 #dja;a4 ,we willingly leave to the ,britons their freedom4 ,it is nothing but the freedom of the ,english aristocracy to impose its will on the ,english people4 ,it is the freedom of individuals1 bought with the misery of millions and with the blood of hirelings4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,v4 ,,blume1 ,d4,d4,m41 p4 #ba4 ,but see ,no4 #dcb1 on the disgusting comfort of the ,british workman4 #djb4 ,we need not be ashamed of our hatred for ,england4 ,it is rooted in our love for our innocently suffering fellow-countrymen4 ,this sanctifies it4 ,the ,gospel does not say1 ,if any one strikes thy child on the right cheek1 turn to him also the left cheek of thy child1 ,it speaks only of one's own cheek4 ,but it also speaks of the hell-fire of which the offender stands in danger4--,,prof4 ,r4 ,,leonhard1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #af4 #djc4 ,our war expenses will be paid by the vanquished4 ,the black-white-red flag shall float over all seas4444 ,the whole world shall stand open to us1 to develop the energy of the ,german nature in unhampered competition4444 ,we must break the tyranny which ,england1 in base self-seeking and shameless contempt of law1 exercises over the seas4--,,prof4 ,o4 v4 ,,gierke1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #b1 p4 #bc4 #djd4 ,it is high time to shake off the illusion that there is any moral law1 or any historical consideration1 that imposes upon us any sort of restraint with regard to ,england4 ,only absolute ruthlessness makes any impression on the ,englishman2 anything else he regards as weakness4444 ,a corsaire1 corsaire et demi6--,,prof4 ,o4 ,,flamm1 ,e4,b41 p4 #djj4 #dje4 ,that foreign ,kulturs offer us things of spiritual value1 whether it be for our enjoyment or by way of a challenge1 is true--always1 of course1 with the exception of ,england1 which does not produce anything of spiritual value4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #acg4 #djf4 ,our real fight is against ,england1 the master of calculation4 ,the miraculous fights against the commonplace1 ,german spirit against ,english shrewdness1 imperturbable heroism against crafty statesmanship4 ,even those people who now think that they are fighting in the name of civilization against us barbarians1 will shortly discover their mistake1 and recognize the ,german miracle which has come to save the world from the spirit of calculating rationalism4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #aje4 #djg4 ,it is certain that the present generation of continental ,europe1 which has been for fifteen months a daily witness of ,great ,britain's barbarous and infamous conduct of the war--the unexampled massacres1 the shameless political falsity and hypocrisy1 the cowardly ill-treatment of prisoners and wounded6--cannot possibly make any move towards reconciliation4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #aac4 #djh4 ,hastily1 and just at the time appointed for the murder of ,franz ,ferdinand1 a friendly visit of battleships to ,kiel is arranged#ch--;for the other attempts to spy out the harbour had failed4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #fg4 #djh;a4 ,we have now ascertained that the plan for the assassination of the ,austrian ,crown-,prince was known in the ,serbian ,legation in ,london1 and we shall certainly soon learn that it was known in other places as well4--,k4,l4,a4 ,,schmidt1 ,d4,e4,e41 p4 #g4 #dji4 ,that the blood-guiltiness of this greatest crime in world-history lies at the door of ,england alone and that she has for more than forty years been plotting the annihilation of her dangerous ,german competitor1 has been established by numerous facts 444 and1 during the past three months1 by the nave admissions of ,english statesmen4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #aac4 #daj4 ,it is a pity that ,nietzsche did not live to see the success of his teaching in ,england4444 ,britain may claim to have bred the ,superman in the highest potency yet attained4 ,he has made a clean sweep of the old ,british morality4 ,he is coldly and unfeelingly inspired by a frightful craving for power1 that wades through rivers of blood1 and knows neither compunction nor pity4 ,these are weaknesses which the ,superman has conquered4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #i4 ,but see ,no4 #acb4 #daa4 ,it is a pity that men like ,newton1 ,darwin1 ,shakespeare1 ,marlborough1 ,nelson1 ,wellington1 ,spurgeon1 etc41 should have their birth recorded in ,british registers4 ,but they are exceptions4 ,among the millions of the ,cities of the ,plain1 there must be a few just men4--,,pastor ,b4 ,l,,sche1 ,d4,s4,e4,s4,d41 p4 #ae4 #daa;a4 ,death and destruction to the poison-mixers on the banks of the ,thames6 ,cain1 ,ahab1 ,judas1 ,ephialtes1 and the disciples of these master-assassins1 whatever they may be called1 are positive heroes in comparison with the ruffians who1 jeering at all ,kultur1 have committed a crime against innocent blood which no words can characterize4--,,pastor ,b4 ,l,,sche1#ci ,d4,s4,e4,s4,d41 p4 #d4 #dab4 ,the unexampled sorrow and need begotten by the gigantic world-war conjured up by ,england's brutal egoism--the greatest crime in the whole world-history--has inclined many suffering people to suicide4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #ci4 #dac4 ,title4 ,the ,greatest ,criminal against ,humanity of the ,twentieth ,century1 ,,king ,,edward ,,vii4 ,,of ,,england4 ,a ,curse ,pamphlet 7,fluchschrift71#dj by ,lieutenant-,colonel ,reinhold ,wagner4 ,he it was1 he it was that kindled the world-war4 ,he was the incarnation of the boundless selfishness and unscrupulousness of ,englishism 7,englndertum74 ,opening words of above-cited pamphlet4 #dad4 ,white snow1 white snow1 fall1 fall for seven weeks2 all may'st thou cover1 far and wide1 but never ,england's shame2 white snow1 white snow1 never the sins of ,england4--,g4 ,,falck1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ej4 ,british ,vices--,hypocrisy1 ,envy and ,greed4 #dae4 ,england thinks the hour has come for our annihilation4 ,why does she want to annihilate us8 ,because she cannot forgive our strength1 our industry1 our prosperity6 ,there is no other explanation6#da--,,prof4 ,a4 v4 ,,harnack1 ,i4,m41 #ast ,october1 #aiad1 p4 #be4 #daf4 ,no other people has misused its riches as ,england has4 ,with a hypocritically virtuous air1 the ,british ,chauvinist has for years been labouring to undermine the ,german name1 and few can have divined with what means he went to work4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #dg4 #dag4 ,we cannot expect our enemies to try to do us justice--though we can1 after all1 sympathetically understand almost all of them1 with the sole exception of the ,english1 in whom the transparently base abstractness of the calculating business spirit lies beneath the level of humanity1 and is so positively immoral as to be entirely outside the scope of sympathy4--,g4 ,,misch1 ,v4,g4,d4,k41 p4 #h4 #dah4 ,and then ,england6 ,she does not1 like ,france1 send all her sons into the field1 but sends specially enlisted troops4 ,there lurks the impelling evil spirit1 which has conjured up this war out of hell--the spirit of envy and the spirit of hypocrisy4--,,prof4 ,u4 ,v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 pt4 i41 p4 #g4 #dai4 ,england is a ,moloch that will devour everything1 a vampire that will suck tribute from all the veins of the earth1 a monster snake encircling the whole ,equator4--,my ,german ,fatherland1 by ,,pastor ,,tolzien1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #adj4 #dbj4 ,in the last attempt at an ,anglo-,saxon philosophy1 ,pragmatism1 the test of truth became simply usefulness4 ,it is true that most ,englishmen turned against it4 ,why8 ,not because this view seemed to them false1 but because they thought it inadvisable1 and therefore sinful1 to blurt out the secret4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #aba4 #dba4 ,an ,english poet has invented a symbol that may well be applied to his own country3 ,the ,picture of ,dorian ,grey4 ,in the eyes of the world1 the hypocritical sinner seems to be endowed with the gift of unfading youth and beauty2 but only because he has at home a sedulously concealed portrait of magical properties4 ,in this the vices plough their furrows2 in this the features are gradually contorted into a grisly image of guilt2 until the day of judgment--the day of self-judgment4--,,prof4 ,u4 v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 pt4 iv41 p4 #af4 #dbb4 ,oscar ,wilde once wrote an essay on ,the ,art of ,lying1 and his countrymen have since carried this art to a high perfection4--,h4 ,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #aj4 #dbb;a4 ,another vice has been developed to its highest pitch in this war3 to wit1 lying4 ,england in particular has established a record in this department1 even as against the ,father of ,lies1 the ,devil4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,delitzsch1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #ac1 p4 #bj4 #dbb;b4 ,never since human ,kultur has existed has such a deluge of lies and slanders1 of fraud and hypocrisy1 been poured forth as 444 pious ,england has spread abroad in the name of the triune ,christian ,god4 ,and this shameless hypocrisy must appear all the more revolting1 since every one who is at all behind the scenes knows that this ,british ,christian ,god is in truth the ,bank of ,england1 the sacred ,golden ,calf1 the idolatrous worship of which is the chief aim of ,pambritismus1 the lordship of ,england over all other peoples4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #ei4 #dbc4 ,we must be wroth1 and we will be wroth1 with the whole power of our inner man4 ,we will hate the will of the nation which has so basely set upon our peace-loving people in order to destroy us4 ,we will hate the ,satanic powers of arrogance and selfishness1 of treachery and cruelty1 of lying and hypocrisy4 ,we will fight without scruple1 and employ all means of destruction1 however terrible they may be4 ,we cannot do otherwise2 but we do not hate the individual human beings4444 ,the true1 beneficent hatred applies to things1 not persons4--,the ,fifth ,petition in the ,lord's ,prayer and ,england1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,lahusen1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #afb4 #dbc;a4 ,the curse of millions of hapless people falls on the head of the ,british island kingdom1 whose boundless national egoism knows no other goal than the extension of ,british rule over the whole planet1 the exploitation of all other nations to its own benefit1 and the filling of its insatiable purse with the gold of all other peoples4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 quoted by ,p4 ,,heinsick1 ,w4,u4,g41 p4 #d4 #dbd4 ,it is an almost sinister self-contradiction3 the individual ,englishman1 in private life1 is by no means devoid of a certain outward decency1 perhaps because he thinks it pays3 but the public morals of ,england do not shrink from any baseness4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #a1 p4 #ad4 #dbe4 ,it is certain that it was in ,england that humanity first fell sick of the huckster view of the world4 ,but the ,english ailment had spread further1 and above all it had already begun to attack the body of even the ,german people4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ii4 #dbe;a4 ,covetousness1 a huckstering spirit1 a thirst for gain1 calculating envy1 hypocrisy--what despicable vices have they not become to us4 ,we spit at them1 we hate them1 just because they are ,british4444 ,now we walk in gentle innocence through homely pastures1 free from greed of money1 stripped of all cunning1 because--just because it is all ,british4--,,pastor ,d4 ,,vorwerk1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ci4 #dbf4 ,the much-lauded missionary spirit was only a business enterprise1 by means of which ,john ,bull filled his purse4--,the ,christianity of the ,belligerent ,nations1 by ,,pastor ,,erdmann1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #adf4 #dbg4 ,england avers that she makes war against us without hatred1 and thinks she is thereby giving proof of high civilization4 ,it is precisely the proof of her cold-hearted baseness4444 ,the self-controlled ,english gentleman1 who makes unemotional war out of commercial envy1 is more devilish than the ,cossack4 ,he stands to the ,frenchman in the relation of the sneaking murderer for gain to the murderer from passion4 ,the gentleman-burglar of ,conan ,doyle expresses the soul of the nation4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #ae4 #dbh4 ,a nice protector of outraged national rights666 ,thus ,richard1 ,duke of ,gloucester1 appears with prayer-book and rosary on the terrace of the castle1 thus ,mephistopheles dons the mask of lawyer and philosopher1 thus ,iscariot kisses the ,saviour4--,my ,german ,fatherland1 by ,,pastor ,,tolzien1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #adb4 #dbi4 ,never has the mass-misery of war 444 presented itself to us in such grisly shapes as in this terrible world-war1 which has been forced upon us solely by the commercial envy and the brutal egoism of the ,christian model-state1 ,england4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #bg4 ,british ,vices--,cowardice and ,laziness4 #dcj4 ,it is the ,english who may justly be accused of militarism--the people who1 in addition to ,irish and ,scottish hirelings 7they themselves1 as a rule1 prefer to remain at home7 place ,hindus and ,indian mountaineers in the field4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,wundt1 ,d4,n4,i4,p41 p4 #adc4 #dca4 ,envy is utterly foreign to the ,german nature4 ,but one exception we must now admit4 ,we old fellows 444 look with envy at the young1 who are risking their fresh life and strength for the ,fatherland4 ,of this envy1 at any rate1 we must acquit ,england3 its best youth remains quietly at home1 and wins victories in the football field1 leaving it to salaried hirelings to shed their blood4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #a1 p4 #aa4 #dcb4 ,the doctrine of comfort1 as a view of the world1 certainly comes of evil1 and a people who are filled with it1 like the ,english1 are little more than a heap of living corpses4 ,the whole body of the people begins to rot4444 ,in ,england to-day every trade unionist is stuck in the morass of comfort4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ajb4 #dcc4 ,as soon as it comes to the sanguinary reality1 the ,english hireling's heart drops into his breeches4 ,and the ,english ,scotchmen have not even breeches for it to drop into4--,o4 ,,siemens1 ,w4,l4,k4,d41 p4 #ai4 #dcd4 ,whence should courage come8444 ,in our ,german soldiers it springs from honest ,german wrath4 ,but the ,englishman must shout himself into courage4 ,when the first ,english troops landed in ,france1 they sang gaily and interrupted their songs by shouts of ,are we down-hearted8 ,whereupon the ,english hireling sought to keep up his spirits by an answering shout of ,no6 444 ,only their own timidity suggests to the ,english such questions as to their courage4 ,one need not be any great psychologist to realize this4--,o4 ,,siemens1 ,w4,l4,k4,d41 p4 #ai4 #dce4 ,the cunning and unscrupulousness of the pirate does1 indeed1 survive in the ,english sailor2 he lies in ambush for neutral merchant-ships61 lays mines in the fairway of neutral neighbour ,states1 and commits deeds of violence of the most manifold kinds2 but the resolution of the pirate1 the daring intrepidity in attack1 he no longer possesses4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #dc4 #dcf4 ,the great majority of the ,english ,army are to this day ,keltic ,irishmen and ,keltic ,scotchmen2 the real ,englishmen do not enlist4 ,in the ,english battles of the past1 ,englishmen of the nobility no doubt were in command1 but the armies consisted of foreign mercenaries1 for the most part ,germans4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ea4 #dcg4 ,england might1 in league with ,germany1 have dictated ,kultur to the whole world 444 if she had not been untrue to the ,gospel of ,work6--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #fa4 #dch4 ,the ,english race 444 must always be stimulated by the infusion of new blood1 otherwise it would perish of its own indolence4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #ba4 ,treachery to ,germanism4 #dci4 ,england is now showing on what feeble feet its ,germanism rests1 how unsound1 how profoundly unworthy of the ,german ,thought it is4 ,it cannot shake off its bitter accusers--its ,shakespeare and ,carlyle1 its ,dickens and ,kingsley4 ,it has committed treason against the spirit of its greatest men1 who were filled with the certainty that the ,german ,thought must conquer1 and that this victory must be the victory 444 of ,kultur1 civilization and spiritual progress4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #eg4 #ddj4 ,would to ,god ,professor ,engel were right in maintaining that the ,english are ,kelts4 ,then we should not have to be ashamed of our brothers6--,,pastor ,b4 ,l,,sche1 ,d4,s4,e4,s4,d41 p4 #d4 #dda4 ,it is useless for publicists to encourage the popular belief that the ,english prove by their behaviour that they are no longer ,teutons2 for ,teutons they are1 and purer ,teutons than many ,germans4#db--;,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #de4 #ddb4 ,does one ,german cousin fight against another8 ,we good-natured idealists have always dwelt upon this ,german cousinship4 ,the three-quarters-,keltic ,england has no feeling of common ,germanism4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #ae4 #ddc4 ,what about 444 our dear cousins the ,english1 those hucksters whose ,germanism we have at last begun openly to question4444 ,though the ,english language is doubtless ,germanic1 that is by no means a proof that the ,keltic bastards have acquired the ,german nature 7,wesen74 ,we do not count the ,english-speaking ,american negroes as belonging to the white race4--,o4 ,,siemens1 ,w4,l4,k4,d41 p4 #ah4 #ddd4 ,against us stands the world's greatest sham of a people 444 the ,judas among nations1 who this time1 for a change1 betrays ,germanism for thirty pieces of silver4 ,against us stands sensual ,france1 the harlot 7,dirne7 among the peoples1 to be bought for any prurient excitement1 shameless1 unblushing1 impudent and cowardly 6 with her worthless myrmidons4--,war ,devotions1 by ,,pastor ,j4 ,,rump1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #aag4 ,sir ,edward ,grey and his ,colleagues4 #dde4 ,abysmal hypocrisy 444 the national vice has been incarnated for us in ,sir ,edward ,grey4--,,prof4 ,g4 ,,roethe1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 i1 p4 #ad4 #ddf4 ,when that ,english gentleman1 ,minister ,grey1 who has a cancerous tumour in place of a heart1 in the end has to reap the infamy he deserves1 he will promptly cast it from him as dirt with his horse-hoof4--,,pastor ,,tolzien1 in ,patriotic-,evangelical ,war ,lectures1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #ada4 #ddg4 ,the ,englishman treats the foreigner1 when he does not need him1 as thin air1 when he does need him1 as a piece of goods2 consequently1 when he sits in the ,cabinet1 he considers that1 towards a foreign ,state1 a lie is not a lie1 deceit is not deceit1 and a surprise attack in time of peace is a perfectly legitimate measure1 so long as it serves ,england's interests4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,wundt1 ,d4,n4,i4,p41 p4 #aca4 #ddh4 ,sir ,edward ,grey possesses in a singular degree the gift of carrying on business with complete control of all emotion and elimination of all deep thought4 ,every third word of such person is the untranslatable1 elusive1 ,i dare say4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #ad4 #ddi4 ,the untruthfulness and unscrupulous brutality with which the ,english ,cabinet carries on the war place it far below the level of ,muscovite morality4--,,germanus4--,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #ce4 #dej4 ,the ,english diplomatist of the type of ,sir ,edward ,grey holds honesty in political matters to be a blunder and a sin4 ,therefore he usually expresses himself in a form which is capable of several interpretations4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #ah4 #dea4 ,sir ,edward ,grey has for years presided over all the peace conferences--only to ensure the coming of the projected war2 he has for years sought a better understanding with ,germany--only to prevent the honest ,german statesmen and diplomats from suspecting that a war of annihilation had been irrevocably decreed2 the ,german ,emperor1 at the last moment1 had almost averted the danger of war--,grey1 the unctuous apostle of peace1 contrived so to shuffle the cards as to render it inevitable4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ff4 ,for shuffling the cards compare ,no4 #cga4 #deb4 ,the ,president of the ,united ,states1 ,professor ,wilson 444 allows ,american munition works to supply our enemies with unlimited quantities of war material1 favours the infamous design of ,england to starve out ,germany1 and rises in his peace speeches to a height of political and religious hypocrisy in no way inferior to that attained by the ,english million-murderer ,grey4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #fa4 ,britain's ,great ,illusion4#dc #dec4 ,the ,english regard themselves as the ,chosen ,people1 towards which all others are predestined to stand in a relation of more or less complete dependence4--,,prof4 ,u4 v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r4 pt4 iv41 p4 #ai4 #ded4 ,strange as it may appear to us1 it is nevertheless unquestionable that all ,england has from of old been penetrated with the idea that her attainment of uncontested colonial and maritime power was not only to her interest but to that of the whole world1 the dominion over which ,god had ,himself assigned to her1 and that therefore all means to this beneficent end were permissible and well-pleasing to ,god4--,j4 ,,riesser1 ,e4,u4,w41 p4 #aj4 #dee4 ,just because the ,english found their national feeling on the consciousness of their kultural successes1 and the belief that they alone are ,god's chosen people on earth1 every desire of other peoples to assert equality of rights appears to their self-conceit an offence against the will of ,god4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #ca4 #def4 ,the belief in the ,kultur-mission entrusted to it by ,god1 in preference to all other peoples1 has grown into the very flesh and blood of the ,english people4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,keutgen1 ,b4,r4,k41 p4 #g4 #deg4 ,the ,english hold that they are literally descended from the ten tribes 64 ,but we ,germans do not base our relation to ,israel on any such fleshly foundation4 ,the ,german people are the spiritual1 the religious parallel of the people of ,israel1 they are the true ,israel begotten of the ,spirit4--,,dr4 ,,preuss1 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #bac4 #deh4 ,many of the best1 most unselfish and most modest ,englishmen pray to ,god in all good faith that ,he would at last open the eyes of the ,german people1 and especially of the ,german ,emperor1 that they may see how wrong and even sinful it is to place any further hindrances in the way of the expansion of the ,kingdom of ,god on earth by ,his chosen people1 that is to say1 the ,english themselves4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #ab4 #dei4 ,the ,briton regards himself as chosen by ,providence1 the elect of the ,lord1 entrusted with a special mission on this earth1 and placed under the immediate protection of ,heaven1 with a first claim upon all the good things of the earth4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #aa4 #dfj4 ,our duty to ourselves1 and to our ,english fellow-creatures--since we would fain be1 not an imaginary chosen people but true children of ,god--is to give them such a thorough thrashing that they may once for all be cured of the fatal illusion that they have established a monopoly in the dear ,lord ,god1 and that the rest of humanity is destined only to serve as a stool for their clumsy feet6--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #gj4 #dfa4 ,perhaps the reason that ,england's power now stands in so great peril is that1 in her self-deceiving vanity1 she thought that ,god had guaranteed her the dominion of the world4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 ,p4 #hf4 #dfb4 ,it is a matter of fact that the greater part of the ,english people cherish the pathological imagination that they alone are the true pioneers of ,kultur and culture4--,,prof4 ,e4 ,,haeckel1 ,e4,w41 p4 #aae4 #dfc4 ,the ,english now assert the claim of their ,kultur to be the only existing1 and1 indeed1 the ,god-appointed summit of human development1 which to attain would mean salvation for all humanity4 ,this is a positively grotesque mixture of national pride and religiosity4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #ab4 #dfd4 ,england ber alles has in ,england a very solid meaning1 as compared with our quite ideally conceived ,deutschland ber alles4 ,an immense self-assurance1 partly reposing on the notion of being in a special sense ,god's chosen people1 gives to these claims a certain inward foundation4 ,in the consciousness of an alleged superiority of moral ,kultur1 the ,english aspire to rule the world4--,,prof4 ,r4 ,,seeberg1 ,d4,r4,s4,z41 ,no4 #ae1 p4 #bh4 #dfe4 ,alone among ,kultur-peoples1 the ,english know only themselves1 and regard all others1 without exception1 as foreign1 inferior creatures1 towards whom ,nature decrees that the laws of morality1 as between man and man1 should not hold good1 any more than they hold good towards animals and plants4#dd--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #di4 #dff4 ,there are1 of course1 many sincerely pious ,christians in ,england4 ,but either they are impotent as against the prevailing passion1 or they are blinded by the illusion of the chosen people1 and have therefore lost all power of sober self-criticism4--,,oberlehrer ,,hermann ,,schuster1 ,d4,k4,k4 ,comic ,relief4 #dfg4 ,england understands by freedom only club-law1 with the club always in her own hand4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #bb4 #dfh4 ,since the ,cromwellian rule of the sword1 the army is so hated in ,england that an officer1 going on duty from his home to the barracks1 has to drive in a closed carriage4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #da4 #dfi4 ,i found everywhere in ,england1 during my last visits in #aijg and #aijh1 a positively terrifying blind hatred for ,germany1 and impatient longing for a war of annihilation4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ab4 #dgj4 ,england's army of postal officials amounts to #bac1jjj1 distributed through #bd1bde post offices2 the ,german ,empire has #ej1ejj post offices and #cje1jjj officials4 ,now we can understand--can we not8--why ,england envies us4--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #ci4 #dga4 ,one finds in ,england no geniality1 no broad1 kindly humour1 no gaiety4 ,everything--so far as the outward life is concerned--is hurry1 money1 noise1 ostentation1 snobbery1 vulgarity1 arrogance1 discontent1 envy4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #fj4 #dgb4 ,king ,edward ,,vii41 while he was ,prince of ,wales1 was often a guest of the ,london ,savage ,club1 which is so exclusive that the ,prince could not become a member4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #aca4 #dgc4 ,discipline within the parties is maintained with ,draconian severity by the so-called ,whips 7i4e41 ,peitschenschwingern1 lash-wielders72 and woe to the member who should dare to express his own opinion6--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ag4 #dgd4 ,the ,english admit that1 owing to the demoralizing influence of ,edward ,,vii41 they are in a state of religious1 social and economic decadence1 but their illusion as to the incomparable superiority of ,england prevents them from tracing the evil to its true source1 and as some one must be to blame for it1 the fault must of course lie with the rapidly climbing ,germany4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #cd4 #dge4 ,every man wears the same trousers1 every woman the same hat4 ,i remember once being unable to find in all ,london a single blue necktie--blue was not the fashion4 ,this would have been unthinkable in ,berlin1 ,paris or ,vienna4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ah4 #dgf4 ,thus science1 which to us is a very serious matter1 is to the ,englishman1 like everything else--except money-making6--like1 for instance1 politics1 administration1 the care of the poor1 c41--a private hobby1 a sort of sport4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #dc4 #dgg4 ,on the day of the ,oxford and ,cambridge boat race1 one walks1 in the giant city of ,london1 through literally empty 7buchstblich leere7 streets4 ,from the oldest duchess to the youngest chimney sweep1 all are seized with the same mad enthusiasm for this event4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ah4 #dgh4 ,puritanism leads to that shrinking from the frank expression of emotions which 7for example7 explains the fact that cultivated ,england reads its great poet ,shakespeare for the most part in editions in which everything is deleted that could give offence to a sensitive old maid4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,wundt1 ,d4,n4,i4,p41 p4 #cb4 #dgi4 ,at the parliamentary elections before the war nothing is spoken of but the hatred for ,germany1 which animates the speaker and his audience4--,k4,l4,a4 ,,schmidt1 ,d4,e4,e41 p4 #aj4 #dhj4 ,british ignorance is so horrific that a ,german can scarcely conceive it4 ,five years ago1 in a town of #dj1jjj inhabitants1 it was impossible to find a single man1 who1 for payment1 could read ,english correctly to an invalid4--,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ah4 #dha4 ,attention has recently been drawn1 by an authoritative writer1 to the fact that ,english biology and the theory of evolution1 which have achieved so much celebrity1 are in essence nothing but the transference of liberal middle-class views to the processes of life seen in nature4--,,prof4 ,w4 ,,sombart1 ,h4,u4,h41 p4 #ag4 #dhb4 ,is the noble land of ,shakespeare fighting against us8 ,not at all2 for ,shakespeare we have long conquered4 ,he has long been more a ,german than an ,english poet4--,o4,a4,h4 ,,schmitz1 ,d4,w4,d41 p4 #ae4 #dhc4 ,about the middle of the last century1 ,england was in a fair way to save herself from decadence through the revivifying virtue of the philosophico-ethical influence of ,germany4--,,prof4 ,a4 ,,schr,,er1 ,z4,c4,e41 p4 #fi4 #dhd4 ,england is incapable of producing a people's army 7,volksarmee74#de--;,h4,s4 ,,chamberlain1 ,k4,a41 p4 #ej4 ,see also ,nos4 #c1 #adf1 #adg1 #agd1 #agf1 #agh1 #agi4 ,france4 #dhe4 ,the ,english pirate-soul and ,french ,chauvinism were bound to seek and find each other4--,p4 ,,rohrbach1 ,w4,d4,k41 p4 #ad4 #dhf4 ,beasts who spring upon us we can only treat as beasts1 but the bestial hatred which impels them we must not allow to arise in us4--,,prof4 ,f4 ,,meinecke1 ,d4,d4,e41 p4 #ea4 #dhg4 ,at no former time could the ,french soldier be reproached with cowardice4444 ,if his present conduct is so far beneath his reputation 444 it is because he lacks the stimulus of enthusiasm1 because he knows that it is not his country that is sending him forth to battle1 but only an ambitious and short-sighted ,government1 because he is conscious that he is not fighting for a great and noble cause1 but for a mean and dirty one4--,w4 ,,helm1 ,w4,w4,s4,m41 p4 #aa4 #dhh4 ,for honour's sake another hundred thousand men may be sacrificed1 but there must be an end to that4 ,then it is all over with ,france as a great ,power4444 ,these men the ,french ,ministry or others like them must make peace6 ,some one must make it1 for the bloodshed cannot go on forever4 ,but what sort of a peace will it be8 ,v victis6 ,not till now has ,bismarck's victory been complete4--,f4 ,,naumann1 ,member of the ,reichstag1 ,d4,u4,f41 p4 #h4 #dhi4 ,we will do well to leave to ,france the outward boundaries of a great ,power1 if only that we may not figure as the tyrants of ,europe4--,p4 ,,rohrbach1 ,w4,d4,k41 p4 #bh4 #dij4 ,the defeat which ,france is now suffering is only the expiation of guilt which is already a century old4444 ,the twenty years of the ,revolutionary and ,napoleonic ,wars had left the ,french a mere set of individuals who care nothing for the maintenance of their race3 sthetes and dandies1 money-grubbers and ,bohemians4--,k4 ,,engelbrecht1 ,d4,d4,d4,k41 p4 #ea4 #dia4 ,as to the origin of the war the ,french1 as ,england's trusty henchmen1 obediently repeat what ,england tells them4 ,if ,don ,quixote rides at the windmills1 ,sancho ,panza must keep pace with him4--,,prof4 ,w4,v4 ,,blume1 ,d4,d4,m41 p4 #aa4 ,see also ,no4 #c4 ,belgium4 #dib4 ,belgium1 the granary and armoury1 is predestined to be the battlefield in the struggle for the ,meuse and the ,rhine4 ,i ask any general or statesman who has seriously considered the problems of war and politics1 whether ,belgium can remain neutral in a ,european war--that is to say1 can be respected as neutral any longer than may appear expedient to the ,power which feels itself possessed of the best advantage for attack4--,,ernst ,,moritz ,,arndt 7#ahcd71 quoted in ,h4,a4,h41 p4 #bb4 #dic4 ,if ,sir ,edward ,grey had urged neutrality 6 upon ,belgium1 he would have done that country the greatest possible service4--,,germanus1 ,b4,u4,d4,k41 p4 #cf4 #did4 ,where the people of ,israel had to demand a passage through foreign territory1 they were expressly enjoined first to offer the inhabitants peace 7,deuteronomy1 xx41 #aj74 ,only when the right of transit was denied them1 was the sword to be drawn and the passage forced4 ,in such a case 444 ,israel calls the wars in which it has to engage1 wars of ,jehovah4 ,its ,god is indeed a man of war1 the ,lord of the hosts of ,israel4 ,the ,scripture even goes so far as to ascribe the subsequent corruption of the people to the fact that it did not completely annihilate the inhabitants of the conquered country4#df--,,pastor ,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #f4 #die4 ,if ,belgium takes part in the war1 it must be wiped off the map of ,europe4#dg--,r4 ,,theuden1 ,w4,m4,k4,b41 v41 p4 #aj4 #dif4 ,how our adversaries understood neutrality is most strikingly summed up in the following passage from the ,paris paper ,le ,national1 which appeared as early as ,november #af1 #ahcd 6 ,le jour viendra ou 444 la neutralit de la ,belgique1 en cas de guerre europenne1 disparaitra devant le voeu du peuple beige4444 ,la ,belgique se rangera naturellement du ct de la ,france6--,,prof4 ,c4 ,,borchling1 ,d4,b4,p41 p4 #e4 #dig4 ,a ,belgian journalist who had ventured into ,lige writes3--,the ,germans behave quietly4 ,what they require they pay for in ready money4 ,the pigeons which nest in the ,place ,st4 ,lambert have a corner of the place where they are fed4 ,the ,germans have respected this corner1 though they have occupied the rest of the place4--,,pastor ,d4,m4 ,,hennig1 ,d4,k4,u4,w41 p4 #ia4 #dih4 ,see what the war has laid bare in others6 ,what have we learnt of the soul of ,belgium8 ,has it not revealed itself as the soul of cowardice and assassination8 ,they have no moral forces within them2 therefore they resort to the torch and the dagger4--,,prof4 ,u4,v4 ,,wilamowitz-,m,,llendorf1 ,r41 i41 p4 #f4 #dii4 ,the fate that ,belgium has called down upon herself is hard for the individual1 but not too hard for this political structure 7,staatsgebilde71 for the destinies of the immortal great nations stand so high that they cannot but have the right1 in case of need1 to stride over existences that cannot defend themselves1 but live1 as parasites1 upon the rivalries of the great4--,,prof4 ,h4 ,,oncken1 ,s4,m41 ,september1 #aiad1 p4 #hai4 #ejj4 ,our ,chancellor has1 with the scrupulous conscientiousness peculiar to him1 admitted that we were guilty of a certain wrong towards ,belgium4 ,here ,i cannot follow him4444 ,when ,david1 in the pinch of necessity1 took the shew-bread from the table of the ,lord1 he was absolutely in the right2 for at that moment the letter of the law no longer existed4--,,prof4 ,a4,v4 ,,harnack1 ,i4,m41 #ast ,october1 #aiad1 p4 #bc4 #eja4 ,we were in the position of a man who1 being attacked from two sides1 has to carry on a furious fight for life1 and cannot concern himself overmuch as to whether one or two flowers are trodden down in his neighbour's garden4--,,prof4 ,,dr4 ,w4 ,,dibelius1 ,w4,w4,e41 p4 #e4 ,,footnotes3 #ch ,if this does not mean that ,england was an accessory before the fact to the murder of the ,archduke1 what does it mean8 ,the passage is quoted with approval by ,dr4 ,prockosch4 ,englische ,politik und englischer ,volksgeist1 p4 #cd4 #ci ,this clergyman's pamphlet1 of #bd pp41 is one uninterrupted torrent of abuse4 #dj ,doubtless a punning perversion of ,flugschrift1 pamphlet4 #da ,it would be easy to cite #eja repetitions of this dogma in almost the same words4 #db ,otherwise--horror of horrors6--,herr ,chamberlain himself might not be quite assured of his ,germanism4 #dc ,as to the prevalence of this illusion in ,germany1 see section ,the ,chosen ,people and its ,mission1 p4 #bh2 also ,introduction1 p4 xxi4 #dd ,repeated1 in other words1 again and again by this author4 #de ,written #ith ,october1 #aiad4 #df ,it is only fair to state that the writer does not apply this doctrine directly to the case of ,belgium2 but he cannot but have had it in mind4 ,here is the passage from ,deuteronomy3 ,when thou drawest nigh unto a city to fight against it1 then proclaim peace unto it4 ,and it shall be1 if it make thee answer of peace1 and open unto thee1 then it shall be1 that all the people that is found therein shall become tributary unto thee1 and shall serve thee4 ,and if it will make no peace with thee1 but will make war against thee1 then shalt thou besiege it4 ,and when the ,lord thy ,god delivereth it into thine hand1 thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword4 ,but the women1 and the little ones1 and the cattle1 and all that is in the city1 even all the spoil thereof1 shalt thou take for a prey unto thyself2 and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies1 which the ,lord thy ,god hath given thee4 #dg ,as to the date of this utterance1 see ,index of ,books4 ,,index ,,of ,,books ,,and ,,pamphlets ,,from ,,which ,,quotations ,,are ,,made ,,index ,,of ,,books ,,and ,,pamphlets ,,from ,,which ,,quotations ,,are ,,made ,where titles are given in ,english only1 references are to the ,english editions of the works in question ,a4,u4,k4 ,amicus ,patri3 ,armenien und ,kreta4 ,eine ,lebensfrage fr ,deutschland4 #ahif4 7,armenia and ,crete4 ,a ,vital ,question for ,germany47 ,b4,d4,v4 ,ernst ,hasse3 ,die ,besiedelung des deutschen ,volksbodens4 #aije4 7,the ,colonization of the ,german ,folk-,territory47 ,b4,g4,e4 ,friedrich ,nietzsche3 ,beyond ,good and ,evil4 ,b4,i4 ,gerhart v4 ,schulze-,gaevernitz3 ,der britische ,imperialismus im #ai ,jahrhundert4 7,british ,imperialism in the #aith ,century47 ,b4,r4,k4 ,friedrich ,keutgen3 ,britische ,reichsprobleme und der ,krieg4 #aiad4 7,british ,imperial ,problems and the ,war47 ,b4,u4,d4,k4 ,germanus3 ,britannien und der ,krieg4 #aiad4 7,britain and the ,war47 ,d4,a4,p4 ,graf ,ernst v4 ,reventlow3 ,deutschlands auswrtige ,politik4 #aiad4 7,germany's ,foreign ,policy47 ,d4,b4,b4 ,deutschland bei ,beginn des #bjsten ,jahrhunderts1 von einem ,deutschen4 #aijj4 7,germany at the ,beginning of the #bjth ,century1 by a ,german47 ,d4,b4,p4 ,conrad ,borchling3 ,das belgische ,problem4 #aiad4 7,the ,belgian ,problem47 ,d4,c4 ,otfried ,nippold3 ,der deutsche ,chauvinismus4 #aiac4 7,german ,chauvinism47 ,d4,d4,d4,k4 ,karl ,engelbrecht3 ,der ,deutsche und dieser ,krieg4 #aiad-ae4 7,the ,german and this ,war47 ,d4,d4,e4 ,friedrich ,meinecke3 ,die deutsche ,erhebung von #aiad4 #aiad4 7,the ,german ,uprising of #aiad47 ,d4,d4,m4 ,wilhelm v4 ,blume3 ,der deutsche ,militarismus4 #aiae4 7,german ,militarism47 ,d4,e4,e4 ,karl ,l4,a4 ,schmidt3 ,das ,ende ,englands4 n4d4 #aiad4 7,the ,end of ,england47 ,d4,e4,s4,e4 ,max ,stirner3 ,der ,einzige und sein ,eigentum4 7,the ,individual and his ,property47 ,d4,g4 ,ernst ,hasse3 ,deutsche ,grenzpolitik4 #aijf4 7,german ,frontier ,policy47 ,d4,i4,w4 ,deutschland in ,waffen4444 7,germany under ,arms47 ,with a preface and article by the ,crown ,prince4 ,d4,k4,k4 ,der ,krieg und die christlich-deutsche ,kultur4 #aiae4 7,the ,war and ,christian-,german ,kultur47 ,d4,k4,u4,s4 ,gottfried ,traube3 ,der ,krieg und die ,seele4 #aiad4 7,the ,war and the ,soul47 ,d4,k4,u4,w4 ,martin ,hennig3 ,der ,krieg und ,wir4 #aiad4 7,the ,war and ,we47 ,d4,n4,i4,p4 ,wilhelm ,wundt3 ,die ,nationen und ihre ,philosophie4 #aiae4 7,the ,nations and their ,philosophy47 ,d4,r4 ,julius v4 ,hartmann3 ,militrische ,notwendigkeit und ,humanitt1 in ,deutsche ,rundschau1 ,vols4 ,,xiii4 and ,,xiv4 #ahgg-gh4 7,military ,necessity and ,humanity47 ,d4,r4,s4,z4 ,deutsche ,reden in schwerer ,zeit4 7,german ,speeches in ,difficult ,days47 ,a series of pamphlets by the ,professors of ,berlin ,university and a few others4 #aiad-ae4 ,d4,s4 ,paul de ,lagarde3 ,deutsche ,schriften4 #dth ed4 #aijc4 7,german ,writings47 ,d4,s4,e4,s4,d4 ,bernhard ,lsche3 ,du stolzes ,england1 schme dich6 #aiad4 7,thou proud ,england1 shame on thee67 ,d4,u4,f4 ,friedrich ,naumann3 ,deutschland und ,frankreich4 #aiad4 7,germany and ,france47 ,d4,w4,d4 ,oskar ,a4,h4 ,schmitz3 ,das wirkliche ,deutschland3 die ,wiedergeburt durch den ,krieg4 #aiae4 7,the real ,germany3 the ,regeneration through the ,war47 ,d4,w4,e4 ,edmund v4 ,heyking3 ,das wirkliche ,england4 #aiad4 7,the real ,england47 ,d4,z4 ,houston ,stewart ,chamberlain3 ,die ,zuversicht4 #aiae4 ,dated #beth ,may4 7,confidence47 ,e4,b4 ,das ,englandbuch der ,tglichen ,rundschau4 #aiae4 7,the ,england-book of the ,tgliche ,rundschau newspaper47 ,e4,m4,s4 ,franz v4 ,liszt3 ,ein mitteleuropischer ,staatenverband4 #aiad4 7,a ,middle-,european ,league of ,states47 ,e4,p4,d4 ,joseph ,ludwig ,reimer3 ,ein ,pangermanisches ,deutschland4 #aije4 7,a ,pan-,german ,germany47 ,e4,s4,s4,h4 ,ein ,hamburger ,kaufmann3 ,die englische ,seeruber und sein ,handelskrieg4 #aiad4 7,a ,hamburg ,merchant3 ,the ,english ,pirates and their ,trade-,war47 ,e4,s4,v4 ,kurd v4 ,strantz3 ,ein starkes ,volk--,ein starkes ,heer4 #aiad4 7,a ,strong ,people--,a ,strong ,army47 ,published shortly before the war4 ,e4,u4,w4 ,jakob ,reisser3 ,england und ,wir1 #aiad4 7,england and ,we47 ,e4,w4 ,ernst ,haeckel3 ,ewigkeit3 ,weltkriegsgedanken4 #aiae4 7,eternity3 ,thoughts on the ,world-,war47 ,g4,d4 ,otto ,richard ,tannenberg2 ,gross-,deutschland4 #aiaa4 7,great ,germany47 ,g4,d4,w4 ,chr4 ,ludw4 ,poehlmann3 ,das ,gute des ,weltkrieges4 #aiad4 7,the ,good of the ,world-,war47 ,g4,m4 ,friedrich ,nietzsche3 ,a ,genealogy of ,morals4 ,g4,n4,w4 ,friedrich v4 ,bernhardi3 ,germany and the ,next ,war4 ,ed4 #aiad4 ,first published1 #aiab4 ,g4,u4,m4 ,grossdeutschland und ,mitteleuropa um das ,jahr #aiej1 von einem ,alldeutschen4 #ahie4 7,great-,germany and ,middle-,europe in #aiej4 ,by a ,pan-,german47 ,g4,w4,b4 ,the ,german ,war-,book4 ,translation by ,j4,m4 ,morgan1 ,m4,a4 #aiae4 ,g4,z4,k4 ,hans v4 ,wolzogen3 ,gedanken zur ,kriegszeit4 #aiae4 7,thoughts in ,war-,time47 ,h4,a4,h4 ,j4,p4 ,bang3 ,hurrah and ,halleluiah4 #aiaf4 ,h4,d4,f4 ,alfred ,h4 ,fried3 ,handbuch der ,friedensbewegung4 #aiaa4 7,handbook of the ,peace ,movement47 ,h4,t4,h4 ,friedrich ,nietzsche3 ,human1 ,all-,too ,human4 ,h4,u4,h4 ,werner ,sombart3 ,hndler und ,helden4 #aiae4 7,hucksters and ,heroes47 ,i4,m4 ,internationale ,monatschrift fr ,wissenschaft1 ,kunst und ,technik4 7,international ,monthly for ,science1 ,art and ,technology47 ,j4,w4 ,friedrich 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#ahig4 7,the ,world-,position of ,germanism47 ,w4,d4,k4 ,paul ,rohrbach3 ,warum es der deutsche ,krieg ist6 #aiad4 7,why it is the ,german ,war67 ,w4,d4,u4,s4 ,r4 ,jannasch3 ,weshalb die ,deutschen im ,auslande unbeliebt sind4 #aiae4 7,why the ,germans are unloved in ,foreign ,parts47 ,w4,i4,k4 ,ernst ,hasse3 ,weltpolitik1 ,imperialismus und ,kolonialpolitik4 #aijf4 7,world-,politics1 ,imperialism1 and ,colonial ,politics47 ,w4,i4,k4,w4 ,daniel ,frymann3 ,wenn ich der ,kaiser wre4 #eth ,ed4 #aiad4 7,if ,i were the ,kaiser47 ,w4,k4,b4,m4 ,ein ,deutscher3 ,was uns der ,krieg bringen muss4 n4d4 8#aiad 7,what the ,war must bring us47 ,w4,l4,k4,d4 ,otto ,siemens3 ,wie lange kann der ,krieg dauern8 n4d4 8#aiad 7,how long can the ,war last87 ,w4,m4,k4,b4 ,rudolf ,theuden3 ,was muss uns der ,krieg bringen8 #aiad4 ,dated ,august1 #aiad1 but written before it was known that either ,belgium or ,england would be involved in the ,war4 7,what must the ,war bring us87 ,w4,u4,g4 ,p4 ,heinsick3 ,der 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