74. At bottom we Germans are fighting for the same thing which the Greeks defended against the Persians, the Romans against the Carthaginians and Egyptians, the Franks against Islam: namely, the chivalrous European way of thinking, which is ever being threatened by brutal force and puling baseness. We stand once more at a watershed of Kultur.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 119. 75. If we are beaten--which God and our strong arm forbid--all the higher Kultur of our hemisphere, which it was our mission to guard, sinks with us into the grave.--PROF. A. v. HARNACK, I.M., 1st October, 1914, p. 26. 76. That it will be German Kultur that will send forth its rays from the centre of our continent, there can be no possible doubt.--PROF. O. v. GIERKE, D.R.S.Z., No. 2, p. 19. 77. We are indeed entrusted here on earth with a doubly sacred mission: not only to protect Kultur ... against the narrow-hearted huckster-spirit of a thoroughly corrupted and inwardly rotten commercialism (_Jobbertum_), but also to impart Kultur in its most august purity, nobility and glory to the whole of humanity, and thereby contribute not a little to its salvation.--EIN DEUTSCHER, W.K.B.M., p. 40. 78. [Germany has neglected] the highest duty of every Kultur-State--to carry its Kultur into foreign parts, and to win the confidence and affection of other peoples.--F. v. LISZT, E.M.S., p. 12. 79. The idea of the exclusive justification of one's own Kultur which is innate in the French and English, is foreign to us. But we are conscious of the incomparable value of German Kultur, and will for the future guard it against being adulterated by less valuable imports. We do not force it upon any one, but we believe that its own inner greatness will everywhere procure it the recognition which is its due.--PROF. O. v. GIERKE, D.R.S.Z., No. 2, p. 25. 80. The more German Kultur remains faithful to itself, the better will it be able to enlighten the understanding of the foreign races absorbed, incorporated into the Empire, and to make them see that only from German Kultur can they derive those treasures which they need for the fertilizing of their own particular life.--PROF. O. V. GIERKE, D.R.S.Z., No. 2, p. 19. 81. We will not in the future let foreign idols be forced upon us, but will serve our own Gods.--PROF. RUDOLF EUCKEN, I.M., 1st October, 1914, p. 74.