138. Fichte was right in calling us the people of the soul (_Gemuet_) ... [in the sense that] the depth of feeling common to us Germans has become a power controlling our activity and permeating our history, to a degree unknown to any other people. In this sense we have a right to say that we form the soul of humanity, and that the destruction of the German nature (_Art_) would rob world-history of its deepest meaning.--PROF. R. EUCKEN, W.B.D.G., p. 23. 139. Bach, Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven, these men signify for us a spiritual rebirth, such as never happens to other peoples, all of whom only grow old, and can never become young again.--H. V. WOLZOGEN, G.Z.K., p. 49. 139a. Other peoples are young, grow to maturity and then begin to age.... We Germans have often been old, but, thank God, we have as often been _quite_ young.... How young do we not feel ourselves in contradistinction to these Englishmen and Frenchmen.--PROF. G. ROETHE, D.R.S.Z., No. 1, p. 25. 140. No other people, not even the Greeks, have so understood childhood as the Germans. It is we who, in the work of Campe ["The Swiss Family Robinson"] have created children's literature,[16] and still hold the lead in that department; it is we who provide the whole world with children's toys. That is possible only because we have the power of identifying ourselves with the child-soul, and this we could not do if we had not in our own innermost soul something childlike, simple, primitive.--PROF. R. EUCKEN, W.B.D.G., p. 13. 141. The identical ring that we put into the singing of "Ein'feste Burg ist unser Gott" and "Deutschland, Deutschland ueber Alles," is something that cannot be found among the other peoples, because they lack the freshness of national feeling, because they are degenerate.--K. ENGELBRECHT, D.D.D.K., p. 68. 142. I look upon it as absolutely the deepest feature of the German character, this passionate love of right, of justice, of morality. This is something which the other nations have not got.--"On the German God," by PASTOR W. LEHMANN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 79. 143. The period of political chaos a hundred years ago was a blessing for the Germans, who at that time were able to grow deep, while other nations were growing superficial.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 129. 144. Our German peace is an essential factor in our Kultur. Such a love of peace is itself of moral value, but in the person of the Kaiser it finds a consciously religious expression ... and when the Kaiser has to summon his people to a war which he has not willed, there at once awakes in the whole people the religious spirit peculiar to itself, of which the other peoples--unless it be the Turks!--have no conception, it matters not whether they have already dethroned "Dieu" or have "the Lord" forever in their mouths!--H. V. WOLZOGEN, D.Z.K., p. 46.