Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.
GEMS (?) OF GERMAN THOUGHT
COMPILED BY
WILLIAM ARCHER
Garden City New York DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1917
Copyright, 1917, by Doubleday, Page & Company All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
THOR'S HAMMER-CAST
Thor stood at the midnight end of the world, His battle-mace flew from his hand: "So far as my clangorous hammer I've hurled Mine are the sea and the land!" And onward hurtled the mighty sledge O'er the wide, wide earth, to fall At last on the Southland's furthest edge In token that His was all. Since then 'tis the joyous German right With the hammer lands to win. We mean to inherit world-wide might As the Hammer-God's kith and kin. Felix Dahn (1878).
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 3
I
"Deutschland Über Alles" 31
German Humility 31
The Gentle German 49
The Great Misunderstood 55
Kultur 57
Der deutsche Gott 69
The Chosen People and its Mission 78
"Other Peoples" 84
Christ 88
Die deutsche Wahrheit 94
German Insight and Foresight 98
German Freedom 100
The German Language 101
II
German Ambitions 107
Expansion in Europe 107
Expansion beyond Europe 118
Weltmacht 122
III
War-Worship 133
The Lust of Battle 133
War and Religion 135
War and Ethics 137
War and Biology 140
War and Kultur 143
Blood and Iron 145
War Necessary to Germany 149
War Need not be Defensive 153
Contempt for Peace 154
Militarism Exultant 159
IV
Ruthlessness 169
V
Machiavelism 185
Mendacity and Faithlessness 185
Might is Right 194
VI
England, France, and Belgium—Especially England 199
The False Islanders 199
Hymns of Hate 201
British Vices—Hypocrisy, Envy, and Greed 208
British Vices—Cowardice and Laziness 215
Treachery to Germanism 218
Sir Edward Grey and his Colleagues 220
Britain's Great Illusion 223
Comic Relief 228
France 233
Belgium 235
Index of Books and Pamphlets from which quotations are made 243
Index of Authors 255