I will not discuss the respective merits of Teutonic and Slavic culture
and civilization, as in my opinion these are questions absolutely
foreign to the events leading up to the war. The Russian, French,
English, and Servian nations are not fighting against German culture,
as represented by intellectual giants, such as Goethe, Wagner, and many
others, but against German militarism, accompanied by systematic
oppression of the individual residing in German territory.
This internal German policy created a national spirit against which the
Allies now are fighting--the national spirit of Germany, which the whole
world knows, and which is rough, conceited, arrogant, and intolerant
toward foreigners beyond all measures, and admits nothing good unless it
is German or made in Germany. This kind of German national spirit is in
the majority in the empire of Germany and particularly in Prussia; the
real cultured, good-hearted, sentimental German is about to die out
completely, and the few remaining representatives of this type have no
voice in Germany.
The pronounced antipathy to the above-described present majority type of
Germans united all European nations against Germany, and supports their
respective Governments in their efforts to put a stop to the furor
teutonicus of the twentieth century.
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