German Problems
and Personalities

BY

CHARLES SAROLEA

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1917

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
[INTRODUCTION] [1]
[I.][AN AMERICAN PREFACE] [7]
[II.][MY FORECASTS OF 1906 AND 1912][12]
[III.][THE CURSE OF THE HOHENZOLLERN][53]
[IV.][THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE][85]
[(i.) Nietzsche.]
[(ii.) Montaigne and Nietzsche.]
[(iii.) Treitschke.]
[(iv.) Bernhardi.]
[V.] [FREDERICK THE GREAT][136]
[VI.][THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOETHE][142]
[VII.][THE SERVICE OF THE CITY IN GERMANY][148]
[VIII.][THE NEGLECT OF GERMAN][159]
[IX.][MECKLENBURG, THE PARADISE OF PRUSSIAN JUNKERTHUM][164]
[X.][THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR][169]
[XI.][A SLUMP IN GERMAN THEOLOGY][183]
[XII.][THE GERMAN ENIGMA][189]
[XIII.][THE TRAGIC ISOLATION OF GERMANY][196]
[XIV.][RUSSIA AND GERMANY][203]
[XV.][THE PEACEMAKER OF GERMANY: PRINCE VON BÜLOW][218]
[XVI.][THE SILENCE OF HERR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG][226]
[XVII.][THE COMING REVOLUTION IN GERMANY][231]
[XVIII.][VIA PACIS][248]
[APPENDIX: THE PRIVATE MORALITY OF THE PRUSSIAN KINGS][255]

GERMAN PROBLEMS AND PERSONALITIES