One wonders if the historian sixty years hence will be able to forgive him his rebuff to the first genuine democratic movement in Germany during the war.

His responsibility to God and to man is enormous beyond reckoning.

Only the future can decide his place here and hereafter.

It is a moral universe, and, sooner or later, the judgments of God manifest themselves to the eyes of men.
One seems to see in him an illustrious example both of the value and perils of emotionalism.

What power in the world is greater, controlled by moral principle?
What power so dangerous, when moral earnestness ceases to inspire the feelings?
Before the war he did much to quicken the social conscience throughout the world; at the outbreak of war he was the very voice of moral indignation; and during the war he was the spirit of victory; for all this, great is our debt to him.