They certainly do not apply to the German army of to-day.

The popularity of such writers as Von Treitschke and Bernhardi, respecting which so much has been written, is indeed significant of a vast change in German moral conceptions.

The practical influence of Nietzsche, who--with his corybantic whirl of criticism on all things in heaven above and on the earth beneath, a criticism not always coherent with itself--can hardly be termed a German Chauvinist in any intelligible sense, has, I think, been much exaggerated.

The importance of his theories, considered as an ingredient in modern German Chauvinism, is not so considerable, I should imagine, as is sometimes thought.
We come now to the movement already alluded to as a set-off and, within certain boundaries at least, a counteractive of the degeneracy exhibited in the German character since the foundation of the present Imperial system.

The rise and rapid growth of the Social Democratic movement is perhaps the most striking fact in the recent history of Germany.