Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from German Militarism and Its German Critics, Vol. 13: Fully Illustrated by Extracts From German Newspapers; March, 1918
The Great War has focussed the attention of all Americans upon political and social conditions in foreign countries, and has familiarized them with many matters which had not occupied their minds before. The feature which probably attracts more attention than any other is the difference in the respective points of view of the Teutonic and of the English-speaking nations, as revealed in all matters relating to war and warfare. Character and habits of other peeples have been more closely studied than 'ever before, and the aggressive leaders of the group of enemy nations, the Germans, have quite naturally come in for the closest scrutiny.
Accustomed as these leaders have been for many years to universal military service, to a large standing army, to officers drawn principally from the ranks of the nobility, and to marked class distinctions, they have absorbed, and are now wedded to, certain notions which to us, who have grown up under very dif fereat conditions, seem like worship of constituted authority and the unwarranted surrender of individual responsibility.
The gradual development of these very notions has brought about an inordinate in?uence of the military group in public affairs, which at the present moment is frequently referred to and much discussed. It may therefore not be amiss to try to throw some side-lights on the subject.
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