67. Apart from what Professor Larsen has said in Denmark, and Dr. Gino Bertolini in Italy, about German militarism ... we may designate as nonsense everything that foreigners, in low or in high estate, have recently said on this subject. This is a new proof of the fact that foreigners cannot understand us, apart from a few outstanding personalities whom a kind fate has borne aloft to the heights of the German spirit.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 82. _See also Nos. 136-145._ =Kultur.= (BEFORE THE WAR.) 68. The _Kultur_ of the Germans [_Germanen_] is actually the stimulus to our present European _Civilization_ with which we are conquering the world.--J.L. REIMER, E.P.D., p. 31. 69. Germanism, when it rightly understands itself, and remains true to its nature, is childlike and manlike, at once tender and strong, full of genuinely human simplicity, and therefore of irreplaceable value to Kultur.--F. LANGE, R.D., p. 27 (1890). 70. The champions of the so-called race-idea are clear as to the importance of the Germanic race for our civilization and Kultur.... Their meritorious work has converted the dim divinings of instinct into the certainty of knowledge; and yet a sense of oppression steals upon us when we think of what still remains to be done (as they all agree) against a hostile world in arms, both of the flesh and of the spirit--a world of treachery and hypocrisy, of error and of fanaticism, of stupidity and of craft.--J.L. REIMER, E.P.D., p. 50. 70a. Kultur is best promoted when the strongest individual Kultur, that of a given nation, enlarges its field of activity at the expense of the other national Kulturs. If we one day come into conflict with the Martians, then humanity--all the peoples of the earth--will have common interests: but not until then.--K. WAGNER, K., p. 46. 71. I cannot accept the definition of Kultur which identifies it with "form," with the harmonious "rhythm" which, in the English, for example, permeates and unifies everything, from the highest spiritual life to clothes, footwear and table manners.... I am of opinion that we shall apply to this care for "form," for "rhythm," and whatever results from it, the name of "civilization," reserving the nobler word "Kultur" for higher values, and that we should look to our army and the corps of officers to endow us with, and educate us in, these higher values.--F. LANGE, R.D., p. 217 (1901). (AFTER JULY, 1914.) 72. Our belief is that the salvation of the whole Kultur of Europe depends upon the victory which German "militarism" is about to achieve.--Manifesto signed by 3,500 "Hochschullehreren" (professors and lecturers), quoted by PROF. U. v. WILAMOWITZ-MOeLLENDORF, R., pt. ii, p. 33. 73. If Fate has selected us to assume the leadership in the Kultur-life of the peoples, we will not shrink from this great and lofty mission.--G.E. PAZAUREK, P.K.U.K., p. 23.