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Greater power and more mighty mediation are needed to save and deliver me, and behold, my Margery, meseems hear me Margery meseems a special ruling of Heaven hath sent.... When is it that his Eminence Cardinal Bernhardi will return from England?" Hereupon I saw plainly what was in the wind.
First of all there came her stepfather's brother, his Eminence Cardinal Bernhardi for to this dignity had his Holiness raised the Bishop from Rome to Nuremberg, where he lodged in the house of his fathers.
There was an enormous sale of any German books that seemed likely to illuminate the mystery of this amazing concentration of hostility; the works of Bernhardi, Treitschke, Nietzsche, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, became the material of countless articles and interminable discussions.
When the great German mass-peoples find this out, when they discover the little rift in the lute which now separates their real quality from the false standards of their own dominant military and commercial folk, then their true rôle in the world will begin, and a glorious rôle it will be. The influence, however, of Bernhardi in his own country has been somewhat exaggerated in England.
They had no common morality to which one could appeal. One could not appeal in the Name of the Prince of Peace, because to them the Gospel of Peace was immoral. Then the arrogance of their Creed was revolting. This man Bernhardi, and Treitschke, and Nietzsche, and the rest of them lived, and acted on one assumption.
He protests against the prejudiced and superficial outlook of those who can see nothing but the worst of any nation: of those who in the case of Germany concentrate attention on the spirit of a Treitschke or a Bernhardi and on the crime of the occupation of Belgium; of those who in the case of England can see nothing but the policy of Joseph Chamberlain and Cecil Rhodes, nothing but the Boer War.
He looked after the retreating figure of the Cabinet Minister with a slight smile at the corner of his lips. "In a time like this," he remarked significantly, "one begins to understand why one of our great writers was it Bernhardi, I wonder? has written that no island could ever breed a race of diplomatists."
This is the philosophy, the teaching and the language of Nietzsche and on it Treitschke and Bernhardi founded their war propaganda.
And he had most certainly not encouraged her to depend on England sparing her: on the contrary, he could not sufficiently admire the wily ruthlessness with which England watches her opportunity and springs at her foe when the foe is down. The Kaiser and his ministers made an appalling mess of their job. They were inflamed by Bernhardi; but they did not understand him.
To the American academic mind of 1914 defense of war was inconceivable. From Bernhardi it recoiled as from a blasphemy, little dreaming that two years later would find it creating its own cleanly reasons for imposing military service on the country and for talking of the rough rude currents of health and regeneration that war would send through the American body politic.
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