We were very wrong indeed when we praised the soulless Prussian education and copied the soulless Prussian laws.

Knowing that you will mingle your tears with mine over this record of English wrong-doing, I dedicate it to you, and I remain, Yours reverently, G.K.

CHESTERTON II--_The Protestant Hero_ A question is current in our looser English journalism touching what should be done with the German Emperor after a victory of the Allies.
Our more feminine advisers incline to the view that he should be shot.
This is to make a mistake about the very nature of hereditary monarchy.
Assuredly the Emperor William at his worst would be entitled to say to his amiable Crown Prince what Charles II.

said when his brother warned him of the plots of assassins: "They will never kill me to make you king." Others, of greater monstrosity of mind, have suggested that he should be sent to St.Helena.So far as an estimate of his historical importance goes, he might as well be sent to Mount Calvary.
What we have to deal with is an elderly, nervous, not unintelligent person who happens to be a Hohenzollern; and who, to do him justice, does think more of the Hohenzollerns as a sacred caste than of his own particular place in it.

In such families the old boast and motto of hereditary kingship has a horrible and degenerate truth.