The All-Highest doctrine of Germany to-day is the same as the Taxation-without-Representation of George III--only more virulent, stronger, and farther-reaching.

Only by its end can the German people recover and build up their character and take the permanent place in the world that they--thus changed--will be entitled to.
They will either reduce Europe to the vassalage of a military autocracy, which may then overrun the whole world or drench it in blood, or they must through stages of Liberalism work their way toward some approach to a democracy; and there is no doubt which event is impending.

The Liberal idea will win this struggle, and Europe will be out of danger of a general assault on free institutions till some other autocracy which has a military caste try the same Napoleonic game.

The defeat of Germany, therefore, will make for the spread of the doctrine of our Fathers and our doctrine yet.
An interesting book might be made of concrete evidences of the natural antipathy that the present German autocracy has for successful democracy and hence for us.

A new instance has just come to me.