In spite of the fact that they are one of the greatest trading and manufacturing nations of the world, and that precisely the fear of losing their trade and markets has been, as they constantly assert, a chief cause that has driven them to war, they speak as though Germany were a kind of knight-errant, innocent of all material ambitions, wandering through the world in the pure, disinterested service of God and man.

Germany was much more their ideal of a country governed in the proper manner than was France.

Another German professor had defined the position in a sentence: "Germany is a boiler charged to danger-point with potential energy.

Germany was a scarcely less enthusiastic admirer, and even so severe a critic of French literature, as was Lessing, could find words of commendation for Marivaux; but the latter was less prodigal in his admiration of the works of foreign literatures.

The mercantile and professional classes will join hands with the social democrats to remove the decaying incubus of the Hohenzollern system, and Germany will become a more modern and larger repetition of the Third French republic.

A free Germany is a bulwark against the encroachments of France and the arrogance of Russia.

Ruling Germany, and as much else as possible, with a view to the glorification of one's personal family and one's personal God, must be an exhausting labour, and once again the head of the dynasty is afforded an opportunity for a respite.

And first let us dwell on the all-important fact that Germany, as a Great Power, is a creation of the last fifty years.

Not only am I of the opinion that Germany is a land suited for democratic institutions, but I believe that after the fall of the Empire democratic principles have a wider prevalence there than in any other country of Europe.

This was a step forward, though the new Germany was neither a unitary nor a constitutional State.

Germany would have become the strong but stupid Power, whose duty would have been to fight British battles on the continent.

Pope Adrian, in a letter to the German Emperor, asserts Germany to be a papal benefice; Frederick resists the claim.

For more than fifty years after the death of Luther, Germany was the scene of commotions ending in a fiery persecution.

Germany remained most tragically his second fatherland.

It is not true, as Dr. R.G. Usher says, that Germany is "literally self-sufficing" (Pan Germanism, p. 65).

It is easy to see that, sooner or later, the Bolshevik degeneration over, Russia will be recomposed; Germany, in spite of all the attempts to break her up and crush her unity, within thirty or forty years will be the most formidable ethnical nucleus of Continental Europe.

Germany, Japan, and Russia was the combination whispered in Berlin at the time of the unsuccessful attempt to separate the Allies.

The result of this would have been that South Germany would be a weak, disunited confederation, which would be under the control partly of France and partly of Austria.

Germany is our enemy, and if we have a puling compassion on our enemy, we become traitors to our own cause.

Seventy years before the War the German poet Freiligrath wrote a poem to prove that Germany is Hamlet, urged by the spirit of her fathers to claim her inheritance, vacillating and lost in thought, but destined, before the Fifth Act ends, to strew the stage with the corpses of her enemies.

In such offences Germany has been the chief of sinners, but which among the belligerent nations can throw the first stone?

And as France was the standard-bearer of citizenship in 1798, Germany is the standard-bearer of this alternative solution in 1915.

Germany was the most highly organized country from a scientific point of view, but at the same time the country in which there was the least liberty for individual initiative.

By a curious fatality Germany has become the centre of this great war and world-movement, which is undoubtedly destinedas the Germans themselves think, though in a way quite other than they thinkto be of vast importance, and the beginning of a new era in human evolution.

They are annoyed and rather bewildered when they see Germany cutting in ahead of them, especially in the commerce of the Orient; any Englishman "east of Suez" can give a dozen good reasons why Germany is an incompetent upstart; but however satisfactory and soothing to the English soul this line of philosophy may be, it drives no German merchantmen from the sea and no German drummers from the land.