ly be expected to share in the universal
contentment. Are not the Grand Duke and his knights as closely
interested in the welfare of their tenants as a shepherd in the
welfare of his flock? But even in a patriarchal Grand Dukedom the
spirit of modern unrest seems to have penetrated. If German
statisticians may be trusted, the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy do
even seem to have preferred the risks and uncertainties of living in a
distant and unpaternal American Government to the peace and quiet and
security of the Mecklenburg plains. The ungrateful subjects of the
Grand Duke have done what the Kaiser once advised his own disloyal
subjects to do; they have shaken the dust of the Fatherland off their
feet; they have emigrated in such large numbers to the United States
of America that this paradise of Prussian Junkerthum, with its 700,000
inhabitants, is to-day the most thinly populated part of the German
Empire, and contains fewer industries than any other part.

After all, to a military empire soldiers are more necessary than
peasants and artisans. Already in 1815 Mecklenburg could claim the
glory of having produced the greatest Junker soldier of the age, bluff
and rough Prince Bluecher, the victor of Waterloo. The achievements of
the Grand Ducal regiments have fully proved that Mecklenburg-Schwerin
and Mecklenburg-Strelitz have in the present war remained true to the
glories of their military past and have remained worthy of their
feudal present, and the august head of the Grand Ducal dynasty is just
now doing most efficient work in the Balkan States as the
super-Ambassador of his Imperial cousin.

CHAPTER X

THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR

I.

It is the purpose of the following article to single out one aspect of
the war which has been strangely neglected. It is our purpose to
emphasize the influence which the obsession of one particular idea,
the German race theory, has exercised over the German mind and the
part which it has played in bringing about the war of the nations.
False ideas have been the dragon's teeth from which have risen the
legions of five continents. Amongst those false ideas the most deadly,
the most fatal, has been the German heresy of race, the theory of race
inequality and race antagonism. It is in the name of that race heresy,
in the name of Germanism and Pan-Germanism, of Slavism and
Pan-Slavism, of Saxonism and Pan-Saxonism, the war is being waged.

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