anufacture.

"Your England at one time was the chief glass manufacturing country, but
thirty years ago a professor of mathematics at Jena joined a glass
maker, and to-day we lead in the world's glass manufacture.

"In 1910, your England exported one and a half million pounds worth of
glass, and Germany exported five million pounds worth.

"In 1880, your England led the world in the output of pig iron,
producing nearly eight million tons to four million tons produced by the
United States.

"In 1910, the United States produced twenty-seven million tons, Germany
fifteen million tons, and Great Britain ten million tons.

"In 1856 an Englishman named Perkins first produced a coal tar dye.

"In 1910, Germany exported nine and a half million pounds worth, while
Great Britain exported only L336,000 worth.

"So you see Germany has beaten England in peace as you will see we shall
beat her in war."

Then he spat into the fire, put his pipe away, and as he was going out
to bed flung this final shot:

"And there again we differ from you English. That is why we go into this
divine struggle as a grim and serious business. One great united army
with a hymn to God, and one great battle cry, 'Deutschland Uber Alles.'
You English take it as what you call 'a jolly sport,' with your battle
cry, 'Are we down-hearted?' and your battle hymn, 'It's a long long way
to Tipperary,' ah-ha-ho"--and he laughed his way up to his bedroom.

I sat looking into the dying flames, dwelling upon all his jibes.

I thought how each German felt he was a cog in the immense national
machine, and had his work systematised. I could then understand how that
killed initiative in the individual, and why Germany had not made any
great discoveries in science or manufacture, but had simply stolen ideas
of other countries and adapted them to her own ends.

Grandpa Goche had spoken of coal tar dye, then I recalled how Germany
had also taken Marconi's wireless invention and Germanised it; how it
had taken the French and the English ideas in airship and aeroplane
construction and worked upon them; how even the English town planning
movement was imitated. In the latter case I remembered reading that the
"Unter den linden" had been widened by the process of pushing the
dwellings back until they each housed 60 families. Germany, on this
occasion, had grabbed the idea but missed the spirit, in the absence of
which town planning is merely a name.

Even the manufact