German Culture Catholicism and the World War
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Excerpt from German Culture Catholicism and the World War: A Defense Against the Book La Guerre Allemande Et Le Catholicisme There is hardly another word that has been more used, and abused, since the outbreak of the World War, than the word "culture." The English language lacks an adequate term for the German word "Kultur". Long before this war, an author called our English word culture "artificial", expressing "not very happily" what the term implies. For the English, culture is above all, - and in a more personal sense - refinement, polish, manners, habits. The German, when speaking of Kultur, applies the term in a broad Sense to the civilization of a nation as a whole, together with the ideas and ideals on which that civilization is founded; or, as Tylor more correctly than elegantly defined culture: "The list of all the items of the general life of a people represents that whole which we call its culture." When, in the summer and autumn of the memorable year 1914, passions blinded men, not only in the war-stricken countries but also in neutral America, it was in perfect conformity with the British plan of campaign to apply the word culture in its narrow sense and to point, "as ´twere with a defeated´joy, - with an auspicious and a dropping eye", to the events in Belgium as manifestations of German culture, arguing along this line of thought: You that have been deluded to admire German culture and to judge German nature by the writings of German philosophers, scientists and poets, the music of German composers, and, perhaps, the German mode of living and the "Gemutlichkeit" about which some travelers made so much ado, - behold German culture as it really is! Whatever hitherto appeared good and true in German nature, - thus the argument proceeded, - is either the result of outward discipline, or else a vague reminiscence of the happy days of yore, when the Germans were self-content philistines leaving it to England to take care of world politics; when the products of German industries enjoyed the distinction of being "ugly and cheap"; and when the trade-mark "Made in Germany" was not yet a nightmare disturbing the slumber of pious Englishmen. Contrary to outward appearances, the Germans of today are of a different type. 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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