It is simply this; that if Teutonism be used for comprehension it cannot be used for conquest.

If all intelligent peoples are Germans, then Prussians are only the least intelligent Germans.

If the men of Flanders are as German as the men of Frankfort, we can only say that in saving Belgium we are helping the Germans who are in the right against the Germans who are in the wrong.

Thus in Alsace the conquerors are forced into the comic posture of annexing the people for being German and then persecuting them for being French.

The French Teutons who built Rheims must surrender it to the South German Teutons who have partly built Cologne; and these in turn surrender Cologne to the North German Teutons, who never built anything, except the wooden Aunt Sally of old Hindenburg.