Treitschke and the Great War

Joseph Mccabe

Sujets

• Treitschke
• World War
• Causes

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 7
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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THE GREATWAR
ICO
OSEPH MCCABEPresented to the
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
LIBRARY
theby
ONTARIO LEGISLATIVE
LIBRARY
1980TREITSCHKETREITSC
AND THE GREAT
BY
McCABEJOSEPH
,
: T. FISHER UNWINLONDON
W.C.I ADELPHI TERRACE-First Published November, 1914
-Second Impression
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[All Rights Reserved]PREFACE
THE conduct of the German nation during
the war must be thepresent byjudged pre-
incidents and the whichliminary brutality
marked the months of the war. Inopening
of a ofspite highly system mendacityorganised
and the truth has reachedmisrepresentation,
the earsofthe civilised andsomerestraintworld,
has been the Germanimposed upon troops.
We their conduct inmust, therefore, regard
the first months as the conduct deliber-they
Their actions have been aately adopted.
sinister revelation to the nations of the
world. There seems to have been an out-
from the and the forpouring pit, problem
in nation is how thisthoughtful people every
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morbid has into the Germantemper got
nature.
"
are misled the word cul-Many people by
which has been associated with theture,"
German What the Germansproceedings.
call Kultur is no means the same asby thing
what call culture. It meansEnglish people
civilisation. It means the whole ofsystem
and commercial thelife;social, political
the the indus-schools, parliamentary system,
trial the thetechnicallife, skill, military
which theandsystem, everything distinguishes
civilised from the The fact thatman savage.
of seem to havevarious scholars Germany
the of the warconductapproved probably
some colourtothe misunderstand-gives general
how could that re-
ing, yet anyone suppose
thinkers like Harnack and Eucken
ligious
could the horrible that haveapprove outrages
desecrated the soil of one cannotBelgium
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