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Lamprecht of the University of Leipzig, 1 urging the 

 constant support and co-operation of the educated 

 classes in the work of keeping the national ideals 

 before the German people. It was particularly 

 denned with surprising earnestness, simplicity, and 

 power by the Emperor William II in a long series 

 of addresses, Rumbering nearly one thousand, 

 during the first twenty-five years of his reign, 

 delivered on occasions of nearly every type of 

 public duty. 



The aim of the State throughout this work was 

 everywhere to orientate public opinion through 

 the heads of both its spiritual and temporal de- 

 partments, through the bureaucracy, through the 

 officers of the army, through the State direction of 

 the Press, and last of all through the State direc- 

 tion of the entire trade and industry of the nation, 

 so as to bring the idealism of the whole people to 

 a conception of and to a support of the national 

 policy of modern Germany. 



It is the emotion of the ideal that we have in view 

 through all this stupendous making of history in 

 modern Germany as it has influenced the world. 

 It was the conception of duty and the capacity for 

 sacrifice evoked in the mind of the young at an 

 early stage through the emotion of the ideal on which 



1 " German Ideals," Times, 13 December 1913. 



