England and Germany

The Project Gutenberg EBook of England and Germany, by Emile Joseph Dillon This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: England and Germany Author: Emile Joseph Dillon Release Date: July 6, 2009 [EBook #29338] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLAND AND GERMANY *** Produced by Irma Spehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) E N G L A N D A N D G E R M A N Y BY DR. E. J. DILLON WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE HON. W. M. HUGHES, M.P. PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA BRENTANO’S CHAPMAN & HALL LTD. NEW YORK LONDON 1917 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BRUNSWICK ST., STAMFORD ST., S.E. 1, AND BUNGAY SUFFOLK TO H.S.H. ALICE PRINCESS OF MONACO THIS PARTIAL PRESENTMENT OF THE BEGINNINGS OF A WORLD CATACLYSM [vii]INTRODUCTION Behind any human institution there stand a few men—perhaps only one man —who direct its movement, protect its interests, or serve as its mouthpiece. This applies to nations.