CHAPTER V.
WORLD POWER OR DOWNFALL In discussing the duties which fall to the German nation from its history and its general as well as particular endowments, we attempted to prove that a consolidation and expansion of our position among the Great Powers of Europe, and an extension of our colonial possessions, must be the basis of our future development.
The political questions thus raised intimately concern all international relations, and should be thoroughly weighed.

We must not aim at the impossible.

A reckless policy would be foreign to our national character and our high aims and duties.

But we must aspire to the possible, even at the risk of war.

This policy we have seen to be both our right and our duty.