But whether he was right or no, he would have been the readiest to admit that England was not the first to fly at the throat of the young Republic.

Something in Europe much vaster and vaguer had from the first stirred against it.

What was it then that first made war--and made Napoleon?
There is only one possible answer: the Germans.

This is the second act of our drama of the degradation of England to the level of Germany.

And it has this very important development; that Germany means by this time _all_ the Germans, just as it does to-day.