The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife by Edward Carpenter
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[9] See Kropotkin's _War and Capitalism_, p. 12. [10] See note _infra_ on "Commercial Prosperity," p. 167. (Chapter XI below) IV THE CASE AGAINST GERMANY; _November_, 1914. With every wish to do justice to Germany, to whose literature I feel I owe such a debt, and among whose people I have so many personal friends; allowing also the utmost for the general causes in Europe which have been for years leading up towards war--and some of which I have indicated already in the pages above--I still feel it is impossible not to throw on her the _immediate_ blame for the present catastrophe. However we distribute the indictment and the charges among the various parties concerned, whether we accuse mainly the sway of Prussian Militarism or the rise of German Commercialism, or the long tradition and growth of a _Welt-politik_ philosophy, or the general political ignorance which gave to these influences such rash and uncritical acceptance; or whether we accuse the somewhat difficult and variable personal equation of the Kaiser himself--the fact still remains that for |
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