* * * * There are several current fallacies which
blur our judge- ment. At one end of the scale there is the view that all Germans are equally evil and that the sole solution of the German problem is the extermination of the whole Teutonic race. I refuse to subscribe to so defeatist a doctrine, and I trust that my marked distaste for the whole Hegel-Hitler theory has not destroyed my solid respect for the virtues of the German people. At the other end of the scale there is the illusion that the German people, and especially the working-classes, do not in fact desire any wars of aggrandisement and that they have been tricked into aggressiveness by the cunning and rapacity of their leaders. Here again one may doubt whether any nation, however mutton-headed they may appear, could in fact have been tumbled into warfare against their will five times within a single life-time. One must admit that something ails the German soul. I hope in this article to indicate what, in my opinion, is the nature of this malady and its cure.
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