alone a European conquest, but a world-conquest. Her defeat within a
reasonable time does not mean her destruction or dismemberment. It means
only the destruction of Prussian militarism and that theory of national
existence into which the German people have been led under the present
emperor, that theory which teaches:--

"War and courage have done more great things than Charity."

"What is good? All that increases the feeling of power; the will to
power."

"The weak and debauched must perish, and should be helped to perish."


This is the philosophy, the teaching and the language of Nietzsche and on
it Treitschke and Bernhardi founded their war propaganda.

When Emperor William II ascended the throne and became the "All Highest
War Lord," he found himself at the head of two great Germanys: a military
Germany arising from the Prussian conquest of France in 1870, by which
more than thirty states had been welded into a compact unity of military
order, commercial tariffs, railroad transportation, and national finance;
and an industrial Germany forging ahead in the commercialism of the earth
at a pace exceeded by no other nation.

Bismarck and Von Moltke had made a Germany for defense. The railways did
not flow to the ocean for the interchange of commerce. They ran
primarily east and west to the Russian and French frontiers for military
reasons; but never for attack, always for defense. It was expected that
France would revive and again seek to try issues with Germany. In this