But the question of its serviceability to the modern community, in any other than this decorative respect, and particularly its serviceability to the current needs of the common man in such a modern community, is not touched by such an admission; nor does this recognition of its generous spiritual nature afford any help toward answering a further question as to how and with what effect this animus may be turned to account by anyone who is in position to make use of the forces which it sets free.
Among Christian nations there still is, on the whole, a decided predilection for that ancient and authentic line of national repute that springs from warlike prowess.

This repute for warlike prowess is what first comes to mind among civilised peoples when speaking of national greatness.

And among those who have best preserved this warlike ideal of worth, the patriotic ambition is likely to converge on the prestige of their sovereign; so that it takes the concrete form of personal loyalty to a master, and so combines or coalesces with a servile habit of mind.
But peace hath its victories no less renowned than war, it is said; and peaceable folk of a patriotic temper have learned to make the best of their meager case and have found self-complacency in these victories of the peaceable order.

So it may broadly be affirmed that all nations look with complacency on their own peculiar Culture--the organised complex of habits of thought and of conduct by which their own routine of life is regulated--as being in some way worthier than the corresponding habits of their neighbors.

The case of the German Culture has latterly come under a strong light in this way.