22. When the German stands leaning on his mighty sword, clad in steel from top to toe, whosoever will may, down below, dance round his feet--they may rail at him and throw mud at him, as the "intellectuals" ... of England, France, Russia and Italy are now doing--in his lofty repose he will not allow himself to be disturbed, and will only reflect as did his ancestors. _Oderint dum metuant._--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 131. 23. We will not conceal from ourselves that these victories for which our bells ring and our flags wave, and for which we thank our God, may become a danger to us, should they make us vain and arrogant, boastful and indolent! God forbid! We will hold fast to our old modesty, with which we have so often been reproached, and which has indeed often enough degenerated into the undervaluing of ourselves and overvaluing of that which is foreign and despicable.--K. ENGELBRECHT, D.D.D.K., p. 53. 24. We must develop, not into "Europeans,'" but into ever higher Germans.... What sort of a European would be formed by a mixture of the heroic German with the calculating Englishman? If the result was a man who thought half calculatingly and half heroically, it would be an exaltation for the Englishman, but a degradation for the German.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 125. 25. If we come victorious out of this war, we shall be the first people on the earth, a rich stream of gold will pour over our land, and this greatness, these riches, may be a blessing to us if we always remember that true greatness, true riches, lie only in the possession of _moral_ advantages, and that to the fact of our possessing such advantages we owe our success.--W. HELM, W.W.S.M., p. 33. 26. Do you not see, Albion, that the German Michel,[8] on whom you looked down with such contempt, is now transformed into the Archangel Michael, and, encountering you with his flaming sword, triumphs over the race of the fallen angels and all the offspring of hell.--F. DELITZSCH, D.R.S.Z., No. 13, p. 21. 27. We must win, because, if we were defeated, no one in the _whole world_ could any longer cherish any remnant of belief in truth and right, in the Good, or, indeed, in any higher Power which wisely and justly guides the destinies of humanity.--W. HELM, W.W.S.M., p. 8. 28. Every great artistic achievement of France and Italy since the time of the Romans can be traced to families and classes with a strong mixture of German blood, and, especially in earlier times, to the descendants of Germanic stocks, who had kept their blood, or at any rate their nature (_Art_) pure.--H.A. SCHMID, D.R.S.Z., No. 25, p. 21.