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There is, of course, a literature of the war produced by the soldier in the field, in which there are expressed high ideals, abstract conceptions and firm principles. The French soldier has written about liberty, the German soldier has had considerable to say about a Kultur war.
The meek acceptance of Kultur in our books and schools had stiffened what was once a free country with a German formalism and a German fear. By a queer irony, even the same popular writer who had already warned us against the Prussians, had sought to preach among the populace a very Prussian fatalism, pivoted upon the importance of the charlatan Haeckel.
We warned the rest of the battalion by the field telephone wires and saved them all from being poisoned. An exasperating though not murderous "kultur" trick was to send us insulting messages down the stream enclosed in bottles, calling us "dirty dogs," "English swine," etc., etc. The final furious attempt of the Germans to dislodge us began in the daylight.
I think your story is honest and straightforward." "Then why in the name of Heaven don't they treat me so until they have tried me?" "Ah! That is the English way. Here, in Germany, a man is guilty until he is found innocent!" "Oh! So that's your much-vaunted German 'Kultur, is it?" I laughed sarcastically. Seeing that I was a bit overwrought he sought to pacify me. "Would you like a cigarette?"
He was always covertly watching Paul, his fat face wrinkled with perplexity, as though one day he hoped for a revelation by light of which he might grasp the clue to a personality that eluded him entirely. "That boasted civilisation," said Paul "the German Kultur has thrown us back to the earliest savagery of which we hold record.
For years past their public men, have We have been living unsuspectingly with a nation of assassins plotting to destroy us. Did these professors of Kultur not know of this elaborate conspiracy of Kaisertum, which unites the stealthy treachery of a Mohawk or a thug to the miracles of modern science?
Do you understand? No, of course you don't! You are a dreadfully primitive woman!" "I did not think you were German," she said. "Nor did I!" and he laughed "Nor am I. I said just now that I had the 'Kultur' of a super-German and a super-German means something above every other male creature except himself. He cannot get away from himself nor can I! That's the trouble! Come, obey me, Manella!
It is small wonder that children under such authority never learn to know the true meaning of the word "kultur." Somehow he knew about the treacling affair at our last camp, for after getting our names from Osnabrück, he strained every nerve to get us court-martialled and punished. Two or three times a week we criminals had to assemble outside his room at an appointed hour.
This was but a feature of the Teuton tribal belief that all the racial evolutions outside the German borders were undesirable, demoralizing and mischievously blocking the outspread of Kultur. Gard could not but know of the limited income on which existence went on at Villa Elsa. It was characteristic. Though limited, the income was secure.
Bailey: op. cit., First Series, p. 52. Smaller Logic, § 194. Exploratio philosophica, Part I, 1865, pp. xxxviii, 130. Hinneberg: Die Kultur der Gegenwart: Systematische Philosophie. Leipzig: Teubner, 1907.
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