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t the expense of the other national Kulturs. If we one day come into conflict with the Martians, then humanity--all the peoples of the earth--will have common interests: but not until then.--K. WAGNER, K., p. 46. 71. I cannot accept the definition of Kultur which identifies it with "form," with the harmonious "rhythm" which, in the English, for example, permeates and unifies everything, from the highest spiritual life to clothes, footwear and table manners.... I am of opinion that we shall apply to this care for "form," for "rhythm," and whatever results from it, the name of "civilization," reserving the nobler word "Kultur" for higher values, and that we should look to our army and the corps of officers to endow us with, and educate us in, these higher values.--F. LANGE, R.D., p. 217 (1901). (AFTER JULY, 1914.) 72. Our belief is that the salvation of the whole Kultur of Europe depends upon the victory which German "militarism" is about to achieve.--Manifesto signed by 3,500 "Hochschullehreren" (professors and lecturers), quoted by PROF. U. v. WILAMOWITZ-MOeLLENDORF, R., pt. ii, p. 33. 73. If Fate has selected us to assume the leadership in the Kultur-life of the peoples, we will not shrink from this great and lofty mission.--G.E. PAZAUREK, P.K.U.K., p. 23. 74. At bottom we Germans are fighting for the same thing which the Greeks defended against the Persians, the Romans against the Carthaginians and Egyptians, the Franks against Islam: namely, the chivalrous European way of thinking, which is ever being threatened by brutal force and puling baseness. We stand once more at a watershed of Kultur.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 119. 75. If we are beaten--which God and our strong arm forbid--all the higher Kultur of our hemisphere, which it was our mission to guard, sinks with us into the grave.--PROF. A. v. HARNACK, I.M., 1st October, 1914, p. 26. 76. That it will be German Kultur that will send forth its rays from the centre of our continent, there can be no possible doubt.--PROF. O. v. GIERKE, D.R.S.Z., No. 2, p. 19. 77. We are indeed entrusted here on earth with a doubly sacred mission: not only to protect Kultur ... against the narrow-hearted huckster-spirit of a thoroughly corrupted and inwardly rotten commercialism (_Jobbertum_), but also to impart Kultur in its most august purity, nobility and glory to the whole of humanity, and thereby contribute not a little to its salvation.--EIN DEUTSCHER, W.
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