58. Even when, for once, a Latin writer is favourably disposed towards Germany ... he can see in what moves his admiration nothing but animal vitality. "This terrible Germany," he says, "like a wonderful beast of the jungle, springs upon all its foes and fixes its fangs in them." How sadly he here misinterprets the nature of German heroism!--G. MISCH, V.G.D.K., p. 9. 59. It is characteristic that our cruiser _Wilhelm der Grosse_, in order to spare the women and children on board, let an English merchant ship pass unharmed,[9] which by International Law it has the right to sink ... and then come Messieurs the English and repay this act of magnanimity by sinking the same cruiser in a neutral harbour, contrary to all International Law.--PROF. G. ROETHE, D.R.S.Z., No. 1, p. 23. 60. The absence of any sort of animosity towards other people is a striking characteristic of the Germans--and of the Germans alone.[10]--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 12. _See also No. 497._ =The Great Misunderstood.= (AFTER JULY, 1914.) 61. It has been said that it is un-German to wish to be only German. That again is a consequence of our spiritual wealth. We understand all foreign nations; none of them understands us, and none of them can understand us.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 135. 62. The historian and economist Sombart has said: "We understand all foreign nations, no foreign nation understands or can understand us." In these words he rejects all community of Kultur with other peoples, and especially the so-called "Western European Ideas."--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 124. 63. In the world of the spirit, the victory of German thought seemed already almost decided. For it was able to comprehend the others, but they could not comprehend it.--G. MISCH, V.G.D.K., p. 19. 64. We are still the most wide-hearted and receptive of people, a people that cannot live if it does not make its own the spiritual values of the other peoples. We can already say that we know the outer world better than they know us.--PROF. F. MEINECKE, D.D.E., p. 35. 65. Whole-hearted understanding for another people can be fully attained only by treason to one's own nature, to one's own national personality. That is what makes the renegade so hateful, and those unpatriotic half-men, the intellectuals and aesthetes.--PROF. M. V. GRUBER, D.R.S.Z., No. 30, p. 14. 66. The German is docile and eager to learn. His interest embraces everything, and most of all what is foreign. He is disposed to admire everything foreign and to underrate what is his own. With foreigners it is just the other way. We Germans know about them, but they know absolutely nothing about us.--PROF. A. LASSON, D.R.S.Z., No. 4, p. 34.