Preparedness and Democratic Discipline (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Preparedness and Democratic Discipline "The great word of the present day," said Emerson in 1838, "is culture." It was the same word with a different meaning with which the war began. Some of the defenses of Germany by which her statesmen and professors sought then to justify her in the eyes of the world raised not merely issues of right and wrong as to the war itself, but issues as to fundamentals in civilization. The Germans asserted a high claim for world power for the Teutonic race, based upon a superior Kultur, a civilization which Germany has evolved and which they declared demands through its success, through its practical results, a far wider sphere of power and influence in world civilization than it has yet received. Some of these claims of Kultur we have forgotten, as they were not often repeated after the first few months of the war. The Germans said, in effect: We alone of the great nations of modern times have succeeded in evolving a great organization of government, a perfection of administration, unequaled in the whole history of the world. We have done it against tremendous odds and in an incredibly short time. France is a decadent and corrupt bureaucracy, masquerading as a democracy. England is a patchwork of disorganized law, feudal survivals, and precedents patched with clumsy adaptations of transplanted modern German ideas - a civilization gone to seed. What right does her civilization give her to the choice place in the sun? What is there about the organization of English government which justifies its continuance except on the basis of sea power and force? Rome lived and spread her eagles through the ancient world by the superior genius of Roman law, by the civilizing power of that law which lived even after the barbarian laid his hands upon the city of the Cæsars. The Teutons, declared the German professors, are the successors of the Cæsars. The right to world dominion belongs and rightly belongs to this race, the race alone capable of evolving a superior world civilization. So we in America were compelled to think hurriedly and for too short a period, of world civilization. The train of our reflection - if we reflected - was not entirely pleasant. We remembered that ours is not the youngest but the oldest of modern democracies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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