the German student comes to the time he takes up scientific
research, to which the German mind, with its intense industry and
regard for detail, is so eminently suited. The German Government
gives these young students every advantage. They are not, as with
us, obliged to start money-making as soon as they leave school. As
a rule a German boy's career is marked out for him by his parents
and the schoolmaster at a very early age. If he is to follow out
any one of the thousand branches of chemical research dealing with
coal-tar products, for example, he knows his fate at fourteen or
fifteen, and his eye is rarely averted from his goal until he has
achieved knowledge and experience likely to help him in the great
German trade success which has followed their utilisation of
applied science.




CHAPTER IV

PULPITS OF HATE

The unpleasant part played by the clergy, and especially the
Lutheran pastors, needs to be explained to those who regard clerics
as necessarily men of peace.

The claim that the Almighty is on the side of Germany is not a new
one. It was made as far back as the time of Frederick the Great.
It was advanced in the war of 1870. It found strong voice at the
time of the Boer War, when the pastors issued a united manifesto
virulently attacking Great Britain.