many, count for so little that it
is sufficient merely to mention their existence. The history of which I
speak, written for the German Army, will be prescribed later on for use
of the high schools.

From each department of the public service William lifts an important
part of its business. From the Department of Education he takes the
direction of public worship, which, in his capacity as _summus
episcopus_, he proposes to control in person. From the War Department he
takes the section having control of maps and fortresses, which, he
proposes to place under the general staff and his own direction. He is
planning to make a province of Berlin, so that he himself may govern it
in military fashion, etc., etc. Is it possible that the mind of such a
man, thus inflated with pride, should not succumb to every temptation of
ambition? Is there any one of those about him, or amongst his subjects,
who can say where these ambitions will end? When one thinks of the mass
of ambitions and emotions that William II has exhausted since he came to
the throne, when one thinks of the difficult questions he has raised, the
obstacles he has created and the enterprises he has undertaken, how is it
possible not to _fear_ the future?

Germany is beginning to be oppressed by a feeling of uneasiness. She is
beginning to realise that her Emperor, by designing the orbit of his
activity on too large a scale, is producing the contrary effect, with the
result that sooner or later, the narrowing circumference of that orbit
will close in upon him, and he will only be able to break its barriers by
violent repression from within _and by a sudden outbreak of war without_.
Militarism and militarism only, the passion for which is ever recurrent
with William II, can satisfy his morbid craving for movement and action.
Thus we see him celebrating the Anniversary of William I by a review of
his troops and by a speech, so seriously threatening a breach of the
peace, that even the newspapers of the opposition hesitate to reproduce
it. All France should realise that _the German Emperor will make war
upon her without warning and without formal declaration, just as he
surprises his own garrisons_. By his orders, the statement is made on
all sides that the rifle of the German army is villainously bad. Let us
not believe a word of it. On the contrary, we should know that the
greater part of the Prussian artillery is superior to ours; let us be on
our guard