The Germany of the twentieth century," maintains a recent writer, "is not two but one. In 1789, at the outbreak of the French Revolution, there were 360 of these States of every sort and size and variety. Bismarck's attitude to him, as described in his _Memoirs_, is rather like that of an old family retainer who has earned by long and faithful service the right to assert his views and to pit his judgment against his master's. Nothing was left but a humiliating submission: the Serbian Government was obliged to address a Note to the Great Powers, declaring that the annexation and internal condition of Bosnia did not in any way concern her. This, as has been well said, is a kind of "social cement," for it is a tribute to a standard of social conduct set up by the dominant class in a nation. It shows how an attack upon what they hold sacred may rouse to acts of fury a people who are admitted by all who know them to be the most tolerant, most tender-hearted, and most humane in Europe. Even if _we_ shrink from a "fight to a finish," our enemies can be relied upon to persist to the bitter end. Any sympathetic qualms are likely to be outweighed by work at home consideration that a State of this hybrid nature would tend to be more than ever a vassal of Germany.
Will they repudiate him and restore the Khalifate to some more authentic descendant of the Prophet? The amount of the emergency grant in addition to the refund of one-sixth already payable will be either one-third or one-sixth of the expenditure on out-of-work pay, depending on the amount of the trade union levy. Thinking Germany has fallen a victim to the teachings of Treitschke and Nietzsche--Treitschke with his Macchiavellian doctrine that "Power is the end-all and be-all of a State," Nietzsche with his contempt for pity and the gentler virtues, his admiration for "valour," and his disdain for Christianity. Schoolboy "societies," for instance, are in Germany an evil to be deplored and extirpated, not, as with us, a symptom of health and vigour, to be sympathetically watched and encouraged.