German Problems and Personalities
Charles Sarolea
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German Problems and Personalities
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German Problems and Personalities
CONTENTS
GERMAN PROBLEMS AND PERSONALITIES
INTRODUCTION BY THE LITERARY EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK “TIMES”
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER I
AN AMERICAN PREFACE[3]
I.
II.
III.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER II
MY FORECASTS OF 1906 AND 1912[4]
I.—We are Drifting into War.
II.—The Strength of Anti-British Feeling in Germany.
III.—War the German Ideal and the German Idol.
IV.—Why Germany has kept the Peace.
V.—The Political Preparation of War.
VI.—The Imaginary German Grievances.
VII.—The Pacific Meaning of the Entente.
VIII.—German Megalomania.
IX.—German Self-Assertion.
X.—Germany stands for Reaction.
XI.—Prussia controls Germany.
XII.—Why Prussia has enslaved Germany.
XIII.—The German Reichstag as a Debating Club.
XIV.—The Servility of the German Universities and of the Churches.
XV.—The Pan-German Plot.[8]
XVI.—Germany controlling Turkey.[11]
XVII.—German Socialism making for Reaction and War.
XVIII.—Is the Kaiser making for Peace or for War?
XIX.—Belgium the Achilles Heel of the British Empire.
XX.—The Neutrality of Belgium will be violated.
XXI.—The Coming War will be a Political and Religious Crusade.
XXII.—The Nature of the Coming War.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER III
THE CURSE OF THE HOHENZOLLERN
I.—Royalties made in Germany.
II.—The Significance of the Hohenzollern Dynasty.
III.—Landmarks in Hohenzollern History.
IV.—A Dynasty of Upstarts.
V.—Prussia as an Upstart State.
VI.—The Prussian State is not a German State.
VII.—Prussia as a Military State.
VIII.—Prussia as a Predatory State.
IX.—Prussia as a Feudal State.
X.—Prussia as a Despotic State.
XI.—The Hohenzollern as the Champions of Protestantism.
XII.—How the German People were subjected to Prussia.
XIII.—Judgment on the Hohenzollern State.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IV
THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE
I.—NIETZSCHE.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
II.—MONTAIGNE AND NIETZSCHE.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
III.—TREITSCHKE[14] AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRUSSIANISM.
I.—Treitschke as the Representative Prussian.
II.—Treitschke’s Personality.
III.—Treitschke as a Writer.
IV.—Treitschke as a Clear and Original Thinker.
V.—The Prussian State the Centre of Treitschke’s Literary Activities.
VI.—Treitschke’s Treatise on Politics.
VII.—Prussia the Sole Standard of Political Values.
VIII.—Treitschke’s Political Paganism.
IX.—Treitschke’s Antipathies and Hatreds.
X.—Treitschke’s Hatred of the Jews.
XI.—The Theory of the National State.
XII.—The Heresy of Individualism.
XIII.—The Heresy of Internationalism.
XIV.—The Heresy of Imperialism.
XV.—The Dogma of the “Will to Power.”
XVI.—The End justifies the Means.
XVII.—War as the Vital Principle of Political Life.
XVIII.—The Monarchy as the Ideal Form of Government.
XIX.—The Aristocracy as the Mainstay of the Monarchic State.
XX.—The French Revolutionary Dogma of Equality.
XXI.—The Plea for Protestantism.
XXII.—The Necessity of Great Powers.
XXIII.—The Anomaly of the Small State.
XXIV.
IV.—GENERAL VON BERNHARDI.[15]
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER V
FREDERICK THE GREAT: THE FATHER OF PRUSSIAN MILITARISM
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
CHAPTER VI
THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOETHE
I.
II.
III.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VII
THE SERVICE OF THE CITY IN GERMANY[19]
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER VIII
THE NEGLECT OF GERMAN
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IX
MECKLENBURG, THE PARADISE OF PRUSSIAN JUNKERTHUM
I.
II.
CHAPTER X
THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XI
A SLUMP IN GERMAN THEOLOGY
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
CHAPTER XII
THE GERMAN ENIGMA[22]
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIII
THE TRAGIC ISOLATION OF GERMANY: AN INTERVIEW WITH A CONTINENTAL STATESMAN
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER XIV
RUSSIA AND GERMANY
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
CHAPTER XV
THE PEACEMAKER OF GERMANY: PRINCE BERNHARD VON BÜLOW
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
CHAPTER XVI
THE SILENCE OF HERR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
CHAPTER XVII
THE COMING REVOLUTION IN GERMANY
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
CHAPTER XVIII
VIA PACIS
APPENDIX
THE PRIVATE MORALITY OF THE PRUSSIAN KINGS
FREDERICK WILLIAM II.: THE HOHENZOLLERN POLYGAMIST
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
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