Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 8, 2025
The war is for something far deeper than national freedom; it is a war to justify the primary rules of right. Burnet thinks that the great conflict was a conflict between Kultur as nationalistic, and humanism as something international that Germany, in recent years, had abandoned an ideal of culture for that of specialization in the service of the State.
"You should be proud that he is fighting for all of us." "Who we fight?" the redskin continued. "Why," the Senator replied, surprised. "We are fighting the Kaiser you know, the Germans." "Hah," mourned the chief. "Too dam bad." "Why bad?" protested Senator Clapp, getting primed for a lecture on Teutonic kultur and its horrors. "Too dam bad," repeated the old Indian.
Another element to which M. Leroy-Beaulieu attaches considerable importance is the Kultur Kampf in Germany. When the German Government was engaged in its fierce struggle with the Catholics, these endeavoured to effect a diversion and to avenge themselves on papers, which were largely in the hands of Jews, by raising a new cry. They declared that a Kultur Kampf was indeed needed, but that it should be directed against the alien people who were undermining the moral foundations of Christian societies; who were the implacable enemies of the Christian creed and of Christian ideals. The cry was soon taken up by a large body of Evangelical Protestants. The 'Germania' and the 'Civilt
This too is Kultur: "If Silesia become Polish Then, oh God, may children perish, like beasts, in their mothers' womb. Then lame their Polish feet and their hands, oh God! Let them be crippled and blind their eyes. Smite them with dumbness and madness,both men and women." From a Hymn of German hate for the Poles. Germany remains German; but when next she springs, she will make no blunders.
The hostages of Vareddes, the helpless victims of Nomény, of Gerbéviller, of Sermaize, of Sommeilles, and a score of other places in France were scarcely cold in their graves. But the old white-haired professor stands there, unashamed, unctuously offering the kultur of his criminal nation to an expectant world!
Apart from peace, American public opinion believes in commerce and industry, Protestant morality, athletics, hygiene, and hypocrisy, which may be taken as the main ingredients of American and English Kultur. Every American I met in the Far East, with one exception, was a missionary for American Kultur, whether nominally connected with Christian Missions or not.
If we may apply a biological analogy we may say that German Kultur in its modern form cannot survive. That this German civilization has been felt by the world at large to be abnormal and of the nature of a monstrosity we can hardly doubt, and that therefore to some extent there has been a sense, on the part of the enemies of Germany, of fighting to root out a dangerous and rank growth.
They look at their history in the light of the achievements of its great minds, which are regarded as being at once the proof and the justification of its civilisation. Kultur then means more than "culture": it means culture considered as the most important element in civilisation.
Then the German people will be the rock of granite upon which our Lord God can build and complete his work of Kultur in the world.
The intellectual energies of Kultur seem concentrated on distorting the meaning of our dispatches and the speeches of our statesmen, and in manufacturing for their people and neutrals venomous falsehoods. German Geist today is a huge machine to cram lies upon their own people, and to insinuate lies to the world around.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking