"God will see to it," says Treitschke,[I] "that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race!" [Footnote I: Treitschke, "Politik," i., p.

76.] Nevertheless, these tendencies spell for us in Germany no inconsiderable danger.

We Germans are inclined to indulge in every sort of unpractical dreams.

"The accuracy of the national instinct is no longer a universal attribute with us, as in France." [J] We lack the true feeling for political exigencies.

A deep social and religious gulf divides the German people into different political groups, which are bitterly antagonistic to each other.