and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political
insight, as well as of the example of history.

"Now in the year 1912, just as in 1866, and just as in 1870, war
will take place the instant the German forces by land and sea are,
by their superiority at every point, as certain of victory as
anything in human calculation can be made certain. 'Germany strikes
when Germany's hour has struck.' That is the time-honoured policy of
her Foreign Office. It is her policy at the present hour, and it is
an excellent policy. It is, or should be, the policy of every nation
prepared to play a great part in history."--LORD ROBERTS, at
Manchester.

"Britain is disunited; Germany is homogeneous. We are quarrelling
about the Lords' Veto, Home Rule, and a dozen other questions of
domestic politics. We have a Little Navy Party, an Anti-Militarist
Party; Germany is unanimous upon the question of naval
expansion."--MR. BLATCHFORD.

GERMAN OPINION ON GERMAN APATHY AND BRITISH VIGOUR.

"Whole strata of our nation seem to have lost that ideal enthusiasm
which constituted the greatness of its history. With the increase of
wealth they live for the moment, they are incapable of sacrificing
the enjoyment of the hour to the service of great conceptions, and
close their eyes complacently to the duties of our future and to the
pressing problems of international life which await a solution at
the present time."--GENERAL VON BERNHARDI in "Germany and the Next
War."

"There is no one German people, no single Germany.... There are more
abrupt contrasts between Germans and Germans than between Germans
and Indians."

"One must admire the consistent fidelity and patriotism of the
English race, as compared with the uncertain and erratic methods of
the German people, their mistrust, and suspicion.... In spite of
numerous wars, bloodshed, and disaster, England always emerges
smoothly and easily from her military crises and settles down to new
conditions and surroundings in her usual cool and deliberate manner,
so different from the German."--_Berliner Tageblatt_, March 14, 1911.

Presumably each doughty warrior knows his own country better than that
of the other, which would carry a conclusion directly contrary to that
which he draws.

But note also where this idea that it is necessary artificially