[62] Physics and Politics.
[63] Cp. Ripley, op. cit. and Fleure, op. cit.
[64] This was written in 1910, and now in 1919 the dissolution which was so obviously impending is an accomplished fact.
[65] The great myth of the racial unity and superiority of the German people, which we have noticed above, has been cultivated and propagated, with elaborate disregard for fact by the German State and its henchmen in the universities and elsewhere, in a deliberate effort to remedy by art the lack of natural boundaries and of true national homogeneity.
[66] In his Works of Man Mr March Philips shews clearly the influence of the Egyptian landscape upon the arts of sculpture and architecture.
[67] Cf. Sir S. Dill’s The Roman Empire from Nero to Augustus, London, 1905.
[68] Since these lines were written a new mode of rapid locomotion, namely the aerial, which has resulted from the invention and rapid development of the internal combustion engine, threatens to eclipse all others in its effects upon the organisation of the world.
[69] This state of affairs has no doubt been considerably altered during the great war; the political education of Germany, a painful but salutary process, is progressing rapidly.
[70] Cf. N. Angell, The Great Illusion.
[71] Incipient nations have appeared where the Bantu stock has produced occasionally great warrior chiefs such as Chaka and Cetewayo.