This also conceived the English as Sea-Germans.

It conceived Germany as at war with something like itself--practical, prosaic, capitalist, competitive Germany, prepared to cut us up in battle as she cut us out in business.

The time of our larger vision was not yet, when we should realise that Germany was more deeply at war with things quite unlike herself, things from which we also had sadly strayed.

Then we should remember what we were and see whence we also had come; and far and high upon that mountain from which the Crescent was cast down, behold what was everywhere the real enemy of the Iron Cross--the peasant's cross, which is of wood.
Even our very slight ripples of panic, therefore, were provincial, and even shallow; and for the most part we were possessed and convinced of peace.

That peace was not a noble one.