THE EMOTION OF THE IDEAL 133 



The leading ideas underlying the German educa- 

 tional system bore in nearly all their features a 

 strong resemblance to those propounded earlier 

 by Mazzini to his countrymen. 1 Mazzini's clarion 

 cry of the ideal re-echoes throughout it. The 

 bearing, moreover, of Mazzini's profound distinction 

 that education is addressed through emotion to 

 the moral faculties in the young and instruction to 

 the intellectual and that the life of a nation is 

 always in its education was everywhere apprehended 

 by the German mind. 



It is necessary then to imagine this organized 

 teaching of the ideal of German nationalism imposed 

 on the young of the nation in the elementary schools 

 following the youth of the country into the higher 

 schools. It is necessary to consider it again follow- 

 ing the rising generation into the universities at a 

 more advanced stage. And still later it is necessary 

 to imagine the whole adult nation with the same 

 ideals preached to it continuously by officials, by 

 the organized State, and last of all by the Emperor 

 at the head of the State. 



The higher collective policy of the State in the 

 final stage was well described in a letter written in 

 June 1913, a year before the outbreak of the great 

 war, by Heir von Bethmann-Hollweg to Professor 



> On the Duties of Man. IX. " Education." 



