Seeck's 

 view 



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attains the further end of destroying the source from which 

 for two or three centuries all European strifes have been nour- 

 ished and intensified — namely, the English policy of World 

 Dominion — then will Germany, fortified on one side by its 

 military superiority, on the other side by the eminently peaceful 

 sentiment of the greatest part of its people and especially of 

 the German Emperor, dictate peace to the rest of Europe. I 

 hope especially that the future treaty of peace will in the first 

 place provide effectually that a European war such as the 

 present can never again break out. 



6. I hope, moreover, that the Russian people, after the 

 conquest of their armies, will free themselves from Czarism 

 through an internal movement by which the present political 

 Russia will be resolved into its natural units; namely, Great 

 Russia, the Caucasus, Little Russia, Poland, Siberia, and Fin- 

 land, to which probably the Baltic Provinces would join them- 

 selves. These, I trust, would unite themselves with Finland and 

 Sweden, and perhaps with Norway and Denmark, into a Baltic 

 Federation, which in close connection with Germany would 

 ensure European peace and especially form a bulwark against 

 any disposition to war which might remain in Great Russia. 



7. For the other side of the earth I predict a similar develop- 

 ment under the leadership of the United States. I assume that 

 the English dominion will suffer a downfall similar to that which 

 I have predicted for Russia, and that under these circumstances 

 Canada would join the United States, the expanded repubhc 

 assuming a certain leadership with reference to the South 

 American Republics. 



8. The principle of the absolute sovereignty of the individual 

 nations, which in the present European tumult has proved 

 itself so inadequate and baneful, must be given up and replaced 

 by a system conforming to the world's actual conditions and 

 especially to those political and economic relations which 

 determine industrial and cultural progress and the common 

 welfare. 



From Dr. Seeck I received a letter to the same 

 general effect, asserting that the war was a blunder 

 of British diplomacy, devised by the ''infamous mar- 

 plot," Edward VII. In this and other communica- 



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