Such a plan must take cunning and strategy covering years. It must
proclaim peace to the world but rouse all the fighting blood of the
German-speaking race. The spirit for world-conquest must be stimulated
in all literature and art, in education, and commerce; with the
individual and the family. The danger of Germany must be pointed out.
The greatness and rightfulness of her ambitions in the world must be
brought forward and educated into the blood of every growing German.

While to the outside world steadily proclaiming peace, the Kaiser was as
steadily inculcating war and the principles of war into every avenue of
German thought and philosophy.

The Germans are nothing if not logical and scientific. They must
therefore find a reason in philosophy and in the facts of history for
their national programme. Those who found these reasons and logically
set them forth were hailed as the great philosophers and educators of
Germany. The logic was simple. It was that all history and all progress
had been made by war; that peace-loving races decayed, and finally
perished, and their places were rightfully taken by the younger, braver,
sturdier, and hardier fighting races.

"Let your superiority be an acceptance of hardship." "Die at the right
time." "Be hard." "What is happiness? The feeling that power
increases, that resistance is being overcome." Nietzsche thus talked the
principles of this philosophy; a something entirely apart from the
principles of the Christian religion, but an absolutely philosophical,
modern paganism; a worship of power, the assertions of one's individual
and national self--"The Will to Power."

Treitschke taught it to the youth of Germany as applied to war,--not the