leads us to affirm that the master nation must be not
merely an idea but a reality. Now, it is plain that this realization of
the ideal nation is going on under our eyes in the German Nation, which
represents the highest created race and which surpasses all other
nations in science and in power. It is to her, and to her alone, that
the task of accomplishing the will of God upon earth is consigned.

*Means of Success.*

To succeed in it, what means must she employ?

In the first place she must acquire complete consciousness of her
superiority and of her own genius. Nothing German is found in the same
degree of excellence in other nations. German women, German fidelity,
German wine, the German song, hold the first rank in the world. To
combat Satan, that is to say, enemies of Germany, the Germans have at
their service the ancient god, the German god, _der alte, der deutsche
Gott_, who identifies His cause with theirs. And as everything which is
German is by that very fact unique and inimitable, so it is
correspondingly true that everything which the world has of excellence
belongs to Germany in fact and in right. Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Ibsen,
are Germans. A German brain alone could understand them and has a right
to admire them. It is doubtful if even Joan of Arc, that sublime
heroine, is French. German savants have maintained her German
nationality. If the people of Alsace and Lorraine are faithful to France
that only proves that they ought to be German subjects, because fidelity
is a German virtue.

As Germany possesses, in principle, all the virtues, all the
perfections, she suffices to herself and can learn nothing from other
people. By still stronger reason she owes them no duty of respect or
good-will. What is called humanity has no meaning for the German. The
_mot_ of William II., "Humanity for me stops at the Vosges," is not
merely an instance of national egoism. The German Emperor feels that
what is for the present beyond his empire can only acquire value when it
shall be annexed to it.

How, then, ought Germany to behave to other nations?

There are people who wish to be loved, who believe that among nations as
between individuals, courtesy may have a place and that it would be an
advance for humanity to admit that justice and equity may rule
international relations. But Germany, as regards other nations, makes no
account of justice. She has nothing but scorn for that feminine
sentiment which particul