A world-kingdom will come, but no Kaiser will rule over that empire of love. In that world-parliament all the races shall be represented as equals; then the earth that has long been a battle-field shall become an Eden garden, where all are patriots towards the world-kingdom, and scholars towards the intellect, and self-sufficing towards the family, and obedient towards their God.
3. German Superiority a Myth That Has Exploded
Several years before the great war began a Dutch humorist wrote a play on German megalomania. He portrayed a German schoolroom in Prussia. Thirty or forty embryonic Prussians are at the desks and a Prussian schoolmaster is in the chair.
"Children, what is the greatest country in the world?"
All shouted vociferously, "Germany!"
"What is the greatest city in the world?"
"Berlin!"
"Who is the greatest man in the world?"
"The Kaiser!"
"Should there ever be, children, a vacancy in the Trinity, who is best fitted to fill the position?"