162 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



ards of two epochs of time as it existed in the mind 

 of the sovereign who more than any single individual 

 held military power concentrated in his hand, and 

 who at the same time grasped even in the midst of 

 the struggle the overwhelming collective significance 

 of the emotion of the ideal in the future of the 

 world. 



For instance, we witness this Western ruler on his 

 accession to the throne in 1888 addressing his people 

 as a Christian sovereign, 1 extolling the acts " born 

 of Christian humility," and vowing to God "to be 

 a righteous and gentle Prince." We turn back a 

 few pages, and then behold him almost simultane- 

 ously addressing the army. The reader seems to 

 live in another world. Instantly the army is placed 

 before the nation. The heredity of another epoch 

 of time seems to dominate every thought and utter- 

 ance. In the address to the army we behold force 

 as the ultimate fact of the world. It is the depend- 

 ence of the Emperor's ancestors on the army which 

 is emphasized as the vital and significant fact in the 

 history of the State. " So we are bound together," 

 the address continues, " I and the army so are we 



1 In this and the references to the Emperor's speeches which 

 immediately follow, the text quoted is that in the translation of 

 Christian Gauss, Professor of Modern Languages, Princeton 

 University, who has dealt only with the speeches which he 

 states to have received official or semi-official sanction. 



