In England Gladstone and Gladstonism were dead; and Mr.Kipling, a less mystical Carlyle, was expending a type of praise upon the British Army which would have been even more appropriate to the Prussian Army.

The Prussian Army ruled Prussia; Prussia ruled Germany; Germany ruled the Concert of Europe.

She was planting everywhere the appliances of that new servile machinery which was her secret; the absolute identification of national subordination with business employment; so that Krupp could count on Kaiser and Kaiser on Krupp.
Every other commercial traveller was pathetically proud of being both a slave and a spy.

The old and the new tyrants had taken hands.

The "sack" of the boss was as silent and fatal as the sack of the Bosphorus.