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The Malady of the Century

CHAPTER XIII
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All the more carefully does one keep those one has.

Berlin has seemed to me a desert--almost unbearable, without you.

You do not know how impossible things have become there.

They are misusing, without one pang of conscience, the most touching and lovable characteristic of our people--its sense of gratitude, which it exaggerates to the point of weakness.

They are doing all they can to bind Germany hand and foot, to gag her and drag her back into absolutism before her sentimentality will allow her to put herself on the defensive.


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