siegesfest

Updated: June 21, 2025

With a confessed but none the less pathetic illogicality, they feel as though Death had not gone to work impartially, but had selected for his prey the noblest and the best. One of these survivors, in a paper now before me, quotes from Das Siegesfest the line "Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!" and then remarks: "Still, when Schiller says:

William Archer - America To-day, Observations and Reflections