Excerpt from The Germans: I, the Teutonic Gospel of Race, II, the Old Germany and the New
The views concerning German evolution set forth in these pages are not products of the World War. Alike with regard to the ethnological and to the sociological question, they were substantially set forth by the author in four works written or published before 1900, at a time when he had small expectation of such a war, but was much concerned to combat the forces which can now be seen to have made for it. Formed originally in no spirit of national antagonism, they cannot now be reasonably charged with cultivating that spirit. They were shaped, and are now restated, in the spirit of social science.
Dr. Eduard Meyer, once regarded as a scholar so actuated, has latterly undergone a marked transformation, flagrantly exhibited in his charge that English writers had long written habitually of Germans with marked malice. That charge, promptly and explicitly denied by one of his own countrymen, is sufficiently disposed of by the evidence here given of a long predominant English tendency to glorify alike Germans and Anglo-Saxons on the score of racial virtues claimed as common to both. The exposure of the common fallacy can hardly do such harm as has been wrought by its cultivation.
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