German Problems and Personalities

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Author

Sarolea, Charles, 1870-1953

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Produced by Markus Brenner, Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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English

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DD: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Germany

Subject

Germany -- Intellectual life

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eBook-No.

31161

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31161

Release Date

February 3, 2010

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.German Problems and Personalities
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.INTRODUCTION BY THE LITERARY EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK “TIMES” — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER I
4. 4.AN AMERICAN PREFACE [3] — I. — II. — III. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER II
5. 5.MY FORECASTS OF 1906 AND 1912 [4] — I.— We are Drifting into War. — II.— The Strength of Anti-British Feeling in Germany. — III.— War the German Ideal and the German Idol. — IV.— Why Germany has kept the Peace. — V.— The Political Preparation of War. — VI.— The Imaginary German Grievances. — VII.— The Pacific Meaning of the Entente. — VIII.— German Megalomania. — IX.— German Self-Assertion. — X.— Germany stands for Reaction. — XI.— Prussia controls Germany. — XII.— Why Prussia has enslaved Germany. — XIII.— The German Reichstag as a Debating Club. — XIV.— The Servility of the German Universities and of the Churches. — XV.— The Pan-German Plot. [8] — XVI.— Germany controlling Turkey. [11] — XVII.— German Socialism making for Reaction and War. — XVIII.— Is the Kaiser making for Peace or for War? — XIX.— Belgium the Achilles Heel of the British Empire. — XX.— The Neutrality of Belgium will be violated. — XXI.— The Coming War will be a Political and Religious Crusade. — XXII.— The Nature of the Coming War. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER III
6. 6.THE CURSE OF THE HOHENZOLLERN — I.— Royalties made in Germany. — II.— The Significance of the Hohenzollern Dynasty. — III.— Landmarks in Hohenzollern History. — IV.— A Dynasty of Upstarts. — V.— Prussia as an Upstart State. — VI.— The Prussian State is not a German State. — VII.— Prussia as a Military State. — VIII.— Prussia as a Predatory State. — IX.— Prussia as a Feudal State. — X.— Prussia as a Despotic State. — XI.— The Hohenzollern as the Champions of Protestantism. — XII.— How the German People were subjected to Prussia. — XIII.— Judgment on the Hohenzollern State. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER IV
7. 7.THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE — I.— NIETZSCHE. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — II.— MONTAIGNE AND NIETZSCHE. — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — III.— TREITSCHKE [14] AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRUSSIANISM. — I.— Treitschke as the Representative Prussian. — II.— Treitschke’s Personality. — III.— Treitschke as a Writer. — IV.— Treitschke as a Clear and Original Thinker . — V.— The Prussian State the Centre of Treitschke’s Literary Activities . — VI.— Treitschke’s Treatise on Politics. — VII.— Prussia the Sole Standard of Political Values. — VIII.— Treitschke’s Political Paganism. — IX.— Treitschke’s Antipathies and Hatreds. — X.— Treitschke’s Hatred of the Jews. — XI.— The Theory of the National State. — XII.— The Heresy of Individualism. — XIII.— The Heresy of Internationalism. — XIV.— The Heresy of Imperialism. — XV.— The Dogma of the “Will to Power.” — XVI.— The End justifies the Means. — XVII.— War as the Vital Principle of Political Life. — XVIII.— The Monarchy as the Ideal Form of Government. — XIX.— The Aristocracy as the Mainstay of the Monarchic State. — XX.— The French Revolutionary Dogma of Equality. — XXI.— The Plea for Protestantism. — XXII.— The Necessity of Great Powers. — XXIII.— The Anomaly of the Small State. — XXIV. — IV.— GENERAL VON BERNHARDI. [15] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER V
8. 8.FREDERICK THE GREAT: THE FATHER OF PRUSSIAN MILITARISM — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — CHAPTER VI
9. 9.THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOETHE — I. — II. — III. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER VII
10. 10.THE SERVICE OF THE CITY IN GERMANY [19] — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER VIII
11. 11.THE NEGLECT OF GERMAN — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER IX
12. 12.MECKLENBURG, THE PARADISE OF PRUSSIAN JUNKERTHUM — I. — II. — CHAPTER X
13. 13.THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XI
14. 14.A SLUMP IN GERMAN THEOLOGY — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — CHAPTER XII
15. 15.THE GERMAN ENIGMA [22] — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIII
16. 16.THE TRAGIC ISOLATION OF GERMANY: AN INTERVIEW WITH A CONTINENTAL STATESMAN — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIV
17. 17.RUSSIA AND GERMANY — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — XV. — CHAPTER XV
18. 18.THE PEACEMAKER OF GERMANY: PRINCE BERNHARD VON BÜLOW — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — CHAPTER XVI
19. 19.THE SILENCE OF HERR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — CHAPTER XVII
20. 20.THE COMING REVOLUTION IN GERMANY — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — CHAPTER XVIII
21. 21.VIA PACIS — APPENDIX
22. 22.THE PRIVATE MORALITY OF THE PRUSSIAN KINGS — FREDERICK WILLIAM II.: THE HOHENZOLLERN POLYGAMIST — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII. — XIV. — BY THE SAME AUTHOR — Select Announcements of some new and recent volumes published by Chatto & Windus.

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