181. German freedom is thus not a natural human right, but an elevation of humanity above the despotism of its own personal inclinations.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 46. 182. We should be in an evil case if we were to barter for these [English] "liberties," however praiseworthy in themselves, our individual many-sidedness, our temperament in constant touch with life, in short our Deutschtum.--KARL HECKEL, E.B., p. 384. 183. Ah, Milton, wert thou living at this hour!... Thou would'st understand German championship of freedom, care for justice, and love of truth.--PROF. A. BRANDL, D.R.S.Z., No. 20. _On English Freedom, see Nos. 401a, 467._ =The German Language.= (AFTER JULY, 1914.) 184. Fichte expresses in simple words a positively decisive truth ... of all the languages of Europe, German is the only living one.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 26. 185. The German ... _must_ conquer; and when once he has conquered--to-day or in a hundred years...--no duty is more urgent than that of forcing the German language upon the world.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 33. 186. If German Kultur and the German spirit are to march victorious through the world, not to oppress other peoples, but to aid them in their own development, an essential preliminary will be the spread of the German language. For only he who knows the German language, and can read the works of our spiritual heroes in the original, can really penetrate into the German spirit, and feel himself at home there.--C.L. POEHLMANN, G.D.W., p. 48. 187. Chance brings to my hands to-day a copy of _Jugend_ for May 28, 1900, containing an article by me in which I read: "I have no firmer or more sacred conviction than this, that the higher Kultur of humanity depends upon the spreading of the German language." I go on to explain that this language is the indispensable interpreter of the German nature (_Wesen_), which is what I chiefly prize; and for the spreading of the language it is necessary that the German Empire should develop into the leading State of the world.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, D.Z., p. 9. 188. A defeat for Germany I could regard only as a deferred victory. I should say to myself: The time, then, is not yet ripe; the sacred treasure must yet awhile be guarded and cherished in the circle of the narrower Fatherland. For alone among all nations Germany possesses to-day a living, developing, sacred treasure.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 24. 189. Germanism (_Was wir "deutsch" nennen_) is the secret through which the inner man is illuminated; and the instrument of this illumination is the [German] language.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 25. 190. If Montaigne were living to-day, he would have to remain silent--or to learn German.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 29. 191. Men must come to realize that whoever cannot speak German is a pariah.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 35. FOOTNOTES: [8] A common expression for the ordinary, average German.