29. Germany is precisely--who would venture to deny it--the representative of the highest morality, of the purest humanity, of the most chastened Christianity. He, therefore, who fights for its maintenance, its victory, fights for the highest blessings of humanity itself, and for human progress. Its defeat, its decline, would mean a falling back to the worst barbarism.--"War Sermons," by PASTOR H. FRANCKE, quoted in H.A.H., p. 68. 30. No nation in the world can give us anything worth mentioning in the field of science or technology, art or literature, which we would have any trouble in doing without. Let us reflect on the inexhaustible wealth of the German character, which contains in itself everything of real value that the Kultur of man can produce.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 135. 31. We have in Germany the best Press in the world, and are in that respect superior to all other countries.--PROF. A.V. HARNACK, W.W.S.G., p. 19. 32. Germany's fight against the whole world is in reality the battle of the spirit against the whole world's infamy, falsehood, and devilish cunning.--"On the German God," by PASTOR W. LEHMANN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 81. 33. German patriotism strikes its deep roots into the fruitful soil of a heroic view of the world, and around its crown there gleam the rays of the highest spiritual and artistic culture.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 71. 34. This combination of clearness of purpose and heroic spirit of sacrifice was unknown in world-history before August, 1914. Not till then was the new German human being born.... Is this new creation to be the human being of the future?--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 103. 35. Verily it has long been an honour and a joy, a source of renown and of happiness, to be a German--the year 1914 has made it a title of nobility.--"War Devotions," by PASTOR J. RUMP, quoted in H.A.H., p. 133. 36. When Luther, in the domain of religion, characterized as unevangelical the conception of merit and reward, and energetically banished the huckster-spirit from religious feeling, he opened to the German thought the widest possibilities of victory.... A specially Germanic way of feeling, a Germanic modesty and distinction of thought, was here powerfully promoted by means of the Gospel. True distinction is always modest, in the sense of being unobtrusive and not bragging of deserts!--K. ENGELBRECHT, D.D.D.K., p. 56. 37. Since the great German Renaissance of the new humanism, the Hellenic has become the truly German.... As the Peloponnesian War divided the States of Hellas into two camps, so this war has divided the States of Europe. But this time it will be Athens and her spiritual power that will conquer.--PROF. A. LASSON, D.R.S.Z., No. 4, p. 40. 38. After the conclusive victories for which we may confidently hope ... the whole habitable earth will far more than hitherto bend its gaze upon us, to marvel at (_anzustaunen_) our standard-setting [artistic] achievements.--G.E. PAZAUREK, P.K.U.K., p. 23.