German science, leader of all sciences, is united forever with what the Latin revolutionists disdainfully term militarism.

Force, mistress of the world, is what creates right, that which our truly unique civilization imposes.

Our armies are the representatives of our culture, and in a few weeks we shall free the world from its decadence, completely rejuvenating it." The vision of the immense future of his race was leading him on to expose himself with lyrical enthusiasm.

William I, Bismarck, all the heroes of past victories, inspired his veneration, but he spoke of them as dying gods whose hour had passed.

They were glorious ancestors of modest pretensions who had confined their activities to enlarging the frontiers, and to establishing the unity of the Empire, afterwards opposing themselves with the prudence of valetudinarians to the daring of the new generation.