German Problems and Personalities
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- German Problems and Personalities
- CONTENTS
- GERMAN PROBLEMS AND PERSONALITIES INTRODUCTION BY THE LITERARY EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK “TIMES”
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER I
- AN AMERICAN PREFACE[3]
- I.
- II.
- III.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER II
- 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
- 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
- THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE
- I.—NIETZSCHE.
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- IV.
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- VI.
- II.—MONTAIGNE AND NIETZSCHE. I.
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- VI.
- III.—TREITSCHKE[14] AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF PRUSSIANISM.
- I.—Treitschke as the Representative Prussian.
- II.—Treitschke’s Personality.
- III.—Treitschke as a Writer.
- 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
- FREDERICK THE GREAT: THE FATHER OF PRUSSIAN MILITARISM
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- III.
- IV.
- V.
- CHAPTER VI
- THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOETHE
- I.
- II.
- III.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VII
- THE SERVICE OF THE CITY IN GERMANY[19]
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- VII.
- VIII.
- IX.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER VIII
- THE NEGLECT OF GERMAN
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER IX
- MECKLENBURG, THE PARADISE OF PRUSSIAN JUNKERTHUM
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- II.
- CHAPTER X
- THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR
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- II.
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- IV.
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- VII.
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- IX.
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- XI.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XI
- A SLUMP IN GERMAN THEOLOGY
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- IV.
- V.
- CHAPTER XII
- THE GERMAN ENIGMA[22]
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- VI.
- VII.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE TRAGIC ISOLATION OF GERMANY: AN INTERVIEW WITH A CONTINENTAL STATESMAN
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- IV.
- V.
- FOOTNOTES:
- CHAPTER XIV
- RUSSIA AND GERMANY
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- XI.
- XII.
- XIII.
- XIV.
- XV.
- CHAPTER XV
- THE PEACEMAKER OF GERMANY: PRINCE BERNHARD VON BÜLOW
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- II.
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- IV.
- V.
- VI.
- CHAPTER XVI
- THE SILENCE OF HERR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG
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- V.
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE COMING REVOLUTION IN GERMANY
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- IV.
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- VI.
- CHAPTER XVIII
- VIA PACIS
- APPENDIX
- THE PRIVATE MORALITY OF THE PRUSSIAN KINGS
- FREDERICK WILLIAM II.: THE HOHENZOLLERN POLYGAMIST
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- Select Announcements of some new and recent volumes published by Chatto & Windus.
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