FOOTNOTES:
[2] Reprinted by kind permission from the _English Review_ for December,
1914.
[3] As an example of this belief, read the manifesto of Professor
Eucken, who represents such a large section of German opinion, and note
the absolute sincerity of its tone--as well as its simplicity.
[4] _Wars and Capitalism_, by P. Kropotkin. (Freedom Press.)
[5] See _Nash's Magazine_ for October, 1914, article by "Diplomatist."
[6] Ibid.
[7] In order to realize how easy such a process is, we have only to
remember the steps by which the outbreak of the Boer War in 1899 was
engineered.
[8] Of course we must remember that there has been all along and is now
in Germany a very large party, Socialist and other, which has _not_ been
thus carried away; but for the moment its mouth is closed and it cannot
make itself heard.
[9] See Kropotkin's _War and Capitalism_, p. 12.
[10] See note _infra_ on "Commercial Prosperity," p. 167.
(Chapter XI below)
IV
THE CASE AGAINST GERMANY;
_November_, 1914.
With every wish to do justice to Germany, to whose literature I feel I
owe such a debt, and among whose people I have so many personal friends;
allowing also the utmost for the general causes in Europe which have
been for years leading up towards war--and some of which I have
indicated already in the pages above--I still feel it is impossible not
to throw on her the _immediate_ blame for the present catastrophe.
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