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that. in order to be great and success
full in the world as it is, they must
possess military power available for
instant aggression on weak nations, as
we'll as for effective defense agains'
strong ones.
When Sir Francis Bacon wrote his
essay on THE True Greatness of King
doms and Estates" he remarked that
forts, arsenals, goodly races of horses,
ornaments, and the like would all he
useless except the breed and DISPOSE
ton of the people be stout and war
like" He denied that money is the sin
ews of war, giving preference to the
sinews of mems arms, and quoted Sol
ons remarks to Croesus Sir, if any
other come that hath better iron than
you, he will be master of all this gold
"a TRULY Bismarckian proposition. In
deed Sir Francis Bacon says explicitly
that the principal point of greatness
in any state is to have a race of mill
tary men," ,'<E.4f II ~
Goethe, rejecting on the wretchel-
ness of the German people as whole,
found no comfort in the German genius
for science, literature, and art, or only
miserable comfort which does not
make up for the proud consciousness
of belonging to a nation strong, re-
spected and feared" Because Germ
any in his time was weak in the mill
tary sense, he could write: Il have
often felt a bitter grief at the thought
of the German people, which is 50
noble individually, and so wretched as
a whole" and he longed for the day
when the national spirit, kept alive and
hopeful, should be ready to rise in all
its might, when the day of glory
dawhs."
THE day of glory" was to be the
day of military power. Carlyle said OF
Germany and France in November,
1870, that noble, patient, deep, pioIs
and solid Germany should be at length
welded into nation, and become
Queen of the Continent, instead OF
vaporing, vain-glorious, gesticulating,
quarrelsome, restless, and oversensit-
ivt France, seems to me that hopeful
est public fact that has occurred in my
time" How did Germany attain to
this position of Queen of the Contin-
ent"? By creating and maintaining
with utmost Intelligence and skill, the
strongest army in European army
which within six years, had been used
successfully against Denmark, Aus
tria, and France, Germany became
| Queen" by virtue of her military pow
er.
In the same paper, Carlyle said c;
the French Revolution, of which he
was himself the preat portrayer, 81
often call that a celestial Internal phe-
nomenon, the most memorable in out
world for thousand years; on tn
whole, transcendent revolt against
the devil and his works (since shams
are all and sundry of the devil, an
poisonous and uncomfortable to man
Now the French Revolution was an
extraordinary outbreak of passionate
! feeling and physical violence on tn
part of the French nation, both al
home and abroad; and it led to the Ma
poleonic wars, which were tremendous
physical struggles for mastery in Eu,
rope.
In a recent public statement two
leading philosophical writer's of mod
= ern Germany, Profs. Eucken AMI
Haeckel, denounce the brutal national
egoism" of England, which they say
recognizes no rights on the part OF
others and ,unconcerned about moral
ity or immortality, ursues only its own
advantage" and they attribute to Eng
land the purpose to hinder at any cost
TIE further growth of German great
ness. But what are the elements OF
that German greatness which England
is determined to arrest by joining
France and Russia in war against Ger