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The Political Thought of 
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LITERATURE 
FOR THE MONTH 
"Culture" 
By R. A. SCOTT-JAMES 
AP"EW volumos of general literature still straggle 
out from tlif Press — a few novels, a few volumes 
of essays and poems, a few works concerned with 
the older miscellaneous interests of the world- 
- But for the most part the literary horizon is still 
dominated by the war. There are some books which record 
actual incidents from the many fields of battle ; some which 
explain the causes of the war, or foretell its effects ; some 
which set out to tell the history of it ; whilst others more 
modestly describe the past wars of English, French, and 
Germans. 
It happens that the two most conspicuous of the books 
th.it have been recently published really do, in the important 
sense of the term, begin at the beginning. They are books 
which serve to show that we are not merely at war with 
German armies, or even with the German nation, but with 
the mind through which Germany in her public capacity is 
and has been thinking. In other words, they enlighten us 
about the " culture " that has been so much bruited, and 
reveal it as a culture which was already carrying on war 
against every other culture in the world. These two books 
are concerned with Treitschke and Neitzsche, the two German 
professors who have exercised, directly and indirectly, a 
profound influence upon the imagination and political thought 
of modern Germany. It is by a strange irony of circumstance 
that these two men, so different in character and ideals, 
should both have contributed to the same end. Nietzsche, 
as we shall see, would have deprecated the result ; he would 
have poured scorn upon the crude misunderstanding which 
has made modern Germans actually range themselves under 
his banner. Once, in a dream, he looked into a mirror, and 
saw not himself, but " a devil's grinning face, a devil's 
scornful laugh." That devil's face is the popular miscon- 
ception of Nietzsche. This distortion of him brings him 
nearer to Treitschke, and the two men together are repre- 
sented as apostles of militant Germany ; and we shall not 
fully appreciate what it is that we are fighting against until 
we understand how those two men have expressed — or have 
appeared to express — the spirit of modern Germany. 
There is no work accessible in English which gives a 
better all-round account of Treitschke than 
" The Political Thought of Heinrich von Treitschke." 
By H. W. C. Davis, M.A. (Constable.) 6s. net. 
The compiler of this book, Mr. Davis, a Fellow of Balliol 
College, Oxford, has, as far as possible, let Treitschke tell his 
own story ; that is to say, the greater part of the volume 
consists of extracts from his writings, and for the rest Mr. 
Davis has outlined the main events in the professor's life, 
and those movements in German history which influenced 
and thrilled him. In his earlier writings Treitschke's style 
seems to have been heavy, involved, unnecessarily obscure. 
In his later works a kind of animal strength enters into it, 
and in the " Politik " he is forceful, impassioned, and clear. 
It is the " Politik " and the essays on English History which 
matter for us ; every reading man should know something 
about these works. But those who can plough their way 
through the chapters devoted to his earher works will see 
more clearly not only how Treitschke developed, but how 
Germany, under Prussia, was developing with him. 
Treitschke is the master in the school in which Bernhardi 
is no more than an apt disciple. The gospel of the modern 
German State is the gospel according to Treitschke. It is 
not that this learned professor had any extraordinary creative 
genius or that he diverted his country from the course it was 
following. He followed the trend of his time, he expressed it, 
and in later life — from 1874 to 1896 — when he was a Professor 
at Berlin University, he so well stated what was going on in 
the minds of the younger men that his words " were swallowed 
as a gospel " ; they " expressed the new ambitions of Germany 
for ' a place in the sun,' for sea-power, for foreign trade, for 
a colonial empire." 
It had taken him many years of professional and political 
life to arrive at the uncompromising dogmas of his " Politik." 
He was born in 1834. He was brought up. as he says liiiiiself, 
" in the atmosphere of the Court of Dresden, in circles whose 
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