Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shelter the specimens; and therefore the aim of life outside the ego should be, not service or sacrifice or any such personal vanity or object of backsliding, but a just acquiescence to that same striving in others which we have set up for ourselves. See how gloriously the German people fights (rightly or wrongly): possibly one reason is German compulsory workmen's insurance. See how miserably the buds of Russian civilization (more socialistic even than the German) are being crushed: possibly one reason is Russian mysticism. Here's to the golden American mean of the future, educating itself by recognition...
...previous years the offensive might have ended where it now stands. But the German populace demands more than an advance--it demands the destruction of the allied resistance and the capture of Paris. Hinderburg must push the assault, backed with decreasing artillery support and supplied over more and more tenuous lines of transport service. In this he is likely to over-reach himself, and when he does we can count on the strategist Foch, who commands the reserves, to counter-attack relentlessly. The rout into which a demoralized victory can be transformed is well illustrated by the slaughter of Russians...
...American army officer can outwit a German military command, gain triumph for his country and win the best girl on earth--in a play. If our dramatists were only directing intelligence operations behind the Teuton lines this week we might expect to have those 70 Prussian army divisions outflanked and slaughtered by Easter and the war ended by the Ides of April...
...plains of Picardy over which the German offensive is now raging are not only pitted with the shell-holes and lined with the trenches of the great Somme battle of 1916, but are underlaid with the relics of a score of other conflicts fought for their possession. Julius Caesar led his legions across the the present battlefield in B.C. 57, while in pursuit of the Nervii. The Franks wrested the region from the Romans and the Northmen in turn from the Franks, sacking St. Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England...
...second place, there are traces of the enemy spirit which we have left in ourselves. Profiteering, for example, is the chief representative among us of the German idea,--the very thing we are fighting against. There is probably less profiteering in America in this war than in any other we have ever fought, and more fine examples of sacrifice of personal interest on the part of large business. What we have chiefly got to do is to clear out the last remnant of the old evil. This can best be done by treating a few conspicuous examples as traitors...