Produced by Odessa Paige Turner, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) And the Kaiser Abdicates. PUBLISHED BY THE YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS IN MEMORY OF LIEUTENANT EARL TRUMBULL WILLIAMS 301ST UNITED STATES FIELD ARTILLERY OF THE CLASS OF 1910 YALE COLLEGE WHO DIED MAY 7TH 1918 AND THE KAISER ABDICATES THE GERMAN REVOLUTION NOVEMBER 1918--AUGUST 1919 BY S. MILES BOUTON WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GERMAN COMMONWEALTH TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO AND ARTHUR NORMAN HOLCOMBE [Illustration] REVISED EDITION NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON : HUMPHREY MILFORD : OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS MDCCCCXXI COPYRIGHT 1920, 1921 BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS _First published October, 1920._ _Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged,_ _September, 1921._ TO THE HONORABLE IRA NELSON MORRIS AMERICAN MINISTER TO SWEDEN THE MAN, THE DIPLOMAT, AND THE LOYAL FRIEND, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR Contents. Chapter I. The Governmental Structure of Germany. 17 Revolutions--Not unknown in Germany--Prussia and the Hohenzollerns--Frederick the Great--Germany under foreign domination--The Battle of the brotherhood of man--Lassalle's national Socialists join the _Internationale_--Germany's political backwardness--The war of 1870-71--Erection of the German Empire--Why the Reichstag failed to become a real parliament--The Emperor's powers as Kaiser and as King of Prussia. Chapter II. The German Conception of the State. 31 Individualism repressed for efficiency's sake--Authority the keynote--The _Beamter_ and his special privileges--Prussian ideals of duty--Education--The Officer corps as supporters of the throne--Militarism--Dreams of a _Welt-Imperium_--The fatal cancer of Socialism. Chapter III. Internationalism and _Vaterlandslose Gesellen_. 45