Excerpt from Germany and the German Emperor

The new German Empire is the most perplexing quantity in the modern world, and as unavoidable as perplexing. Those affections which grow up indeliberately in the blood may draw us toward the quicker Celt, Latin, or Slav. But the Teuton giant will not be ignored, and offers a bold face to strangers even when he is visibly torn and tormented by a conflict of radical forces. What lies behind that appearance of supermanly strength, that steel-clad majesty - an indomitable will, or a gambler's fears? What is the Secret of this Man in the Iron Mask? What is the nexus between Kaiser and conscript, Junker and Social Democrat, between the smiling South and the overbearing bulk of Prussia, between the Pole clinging desperately to his language and his fields, and the skilled workman of Essen, between Lutheran and Catholic, between the old ruins of the Rhineland and the fleets that Hamburg and Bremen send out to the ends of the earth? How reconcile the noble heritage of German poetry and philosophy with the spirit of its latter-day possessors, Goethe with Bismarck? Some aim must underly the herculean efforts of the last forty-one years. what is it? What is to be the end of this rivalry in trade and arms which turns every momentary anxiety into an acute panic? What is the truth about William II? What does Germany mean for the rest of the world?

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