THE GERMAN PROJECT OF EMPIRE
Qualities of the German vision [106]
Symmetry and vastness are dangerous ideals [107]
Frederick the Great and Bismarck [108]
German predisposition to follow dreamers [108]
Grotesque proportions of the Second German dream [109]
The two Americas [110]
Pacifism and Militarism meet at infinity [111]
THE NEW MORALISTS
Germany goes in search of an ethical basis [113]
Special grievances against France and England [114]
German thinkers recast Christian morals [115]
Heinrich von Treitschke [116]
The principle of the state is power [117]
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche [118]
His contempt for British and Prussian ideals [119]
General von Bernhardi [122]
New morality never accepted by the German people [123]
Thrown over even by 'the brethren' when war occurred [124]
Causes of this apostasy [126]
THE STATECRAFT OF A PRIESTHOOD
German education a drill system [127]
Intellectuals are ranged on the government side [129]
Eighteenth-century France and modern Germany [129]
Contrast between their bureaucracies [130]
Between the attitude of their intellectuals [131]
Between their fashions of fancy dress [131]
Dangers to civilisation from within and without [132]
Political thinkers are usually destructive [133]
Unfitness of priesthoods for practical affairs [135]
Contrast between priests and lawyers [137]
Natural affinity between soldiers and priests [139]
Unforeseen consequences of German thoroughness [140]
May lead ultimately to ostracism of Germany [140]
Types of German agents [141]
Treacherous activities in time of peace [142]
The German political creed [144]
The true aim of this war [146]