It is therefore possible to maintain that the political institutions of Germany have come to represent more and more the genius and will of the population.

"The Germany of the twentieth century," maintains a recent writer, "is not two but one.

The currents have mingled their waters, and the Prussian torrent now has the depth and volume of the whole main-stream of German thought."[2] [Footnote 1: _e.g._ Russia has a representative government in this sense, though she is without "representative institutions" in the democratic sense.] [Footnote 2: _Round Table_, Sept.

1914, p.

628.] It may be so; it may be that the Germany of Goethe, Schiller, and Beethoven has been absorbed by the Germany of Bismarck, Moltke, and Roon; but it must not be forgotten at the same time that, since their day, yet another Germany has come into being, the Germany of Marx, Engels, and Bebel, a Germany which is represented by more than a third of the voters in the Empire.