German Problems and Personalities

Project Gutenberg's German Problems and Personalities, by Charles Sarolea 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: German Problems and Personalities Author: Charles Sarolea Release Date: February 3, 2010 [EBook #31161] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMAN PROBLEMS AND PERSONALITIES *** Produced by Markus Brenner, 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.) German Problems and Personalities BY CHARLES SAROLEA LONDON CHATTO & WINDUS 1917 All rights reserved All rights reserved CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 I. AN AMERICAN PREFACE 7 II. MY FORECASTS OF 1906 AND 1912 12 III. THE CURSE OF THE HOHENZOLLERN 53 IV. THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE 85 (i.) Nietzsche. (ii.) Montaigne and Nietzsche. (iii.) Treitschke. (iv.) Bernhardi. V. FREDERICK THE GREAT 136 VI. THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOETHE 142 VII. THE SERVICE OF THE CITY IN GERMANY 148 VIII. THE NEGLECT OF GERMAN 159 MECKLENBURG, THE PARADISE OF PRUSSIAN IX. 164 JUNKERTHUM X. THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR 169 XI. A SLUMP IN GERMAN THEOLOGY 183 XII. THE GERMAN ENIGMA 189 XIII.