But in the long run a people will always recognise that form of government which soonest can give it order, work, prosperity and contentment.

In ninety-nine per cent.
of the population the patriotism and enthusiasm for one or other form of government is nothing but a matter of material considerations.

They prefer a good king to a bad republic, and vice versa; the form of government is the means to the end, but the end is the contentment of the people governed.

Nor has the liberty of those governed anything to do with the form of government.

Monarchical England is just as free as Republican America, and the Bolshevists have demonstrated _ad oculus_ to the whole world that the proletariat exercises the greatest tyranny.
The war that was lost swept away the monarchs, but the Republics will only be maintained if they can convince the people that they are more successful in satisfying the masses than the monarchs were, a proof which--it seems to me--the German-Austrian Republic, at any rate, has hitherto failed to give.
The conviction that these questionable statements not only are false but also objectionable and criminal errors; that the Divine Will has placed the monarch at his post and keeps him there--this conviction was systematically imprinted in the German people, and formed an integral part of the views attributed to the Emperor.