war-instinct

Updated: May 25, 2025

Georg Waitz, insists on the attachment of the Teutonic kindred to the soil, and on the measures by which in the primitive constitutions the war-instinct was checked. The observation of Waitz is just, but a change in environment develops the latent qualities of a race.

J. A. (John Adam) Cramb - The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain: Nineteenth Century Europe