[9] This address was delivered, 9th September, 1914. The _Lusitania_ was sunk 7th May, 1915. [10] Though this was written in the second month of the war, we must in fairness assume that Herr Chamberlain is thinking of the German state of mind before the war. But as he has lived thirty years in Germany he must have been there during the South African War, when the German feeling towards England was too mildly described by the term "animosity." [11] And you must love him ere to you He will seem worthy of your love [12] M. Dumont, writing of the Albanians (_Rev. des Deux Mondes_, vi., 120, 1872), supplies a pertinent comment on German piety: "_Ce qui fait qu'une tribu croit a son dieu, c'est la haine de la tribu voisine._" [13] Chamberlain says that this letter was addressed to him in November, 1914, by a correspondent whom he refuses to name, but of whom he will say that "few men can form such well-informed judgment upon all phases in the life of present-day Germany, and no one deserves to be listened to with higher respect." These expressions, and the mention of William I., may perhaps justify the conjecture that the writer is none other than Chamberlain's warm admirer, William II. [14] The same author explains that "of course the German people have not in themselves deserved this calling: it proceeds from the sheer grace of God, so we can maintain it without any Pharisaism whatever." [15] This saying had already "burst its bonds" and been appropriated to Germany by the Kaiser:--"We are the salt of the earth, but we must also be worthy to be so." (Bremen, 22nd March, 1905.) [16] It is odd that the "creator of children's literature" should have taken the very name of his work from an English book which had been the delight of children for half a century before he wrote. [17] Compare with this the following:--"In our struggle with the Triple Entente, we look for the most valuable aid from Pan-Islamism, from the living sense of solidarity between all Muslims of the whole world, dependent on their common religion.... If all accounts be true, the whole Muslim world is flocking round the Sultan-Kalif, and regards this war as a 'Holy War,' That would be the first and perhaps the greatest triumph of the Pan-Islamic movement."--DR. E. HUBER, in _Das Groessere Deutschland_, Christmas Eve, 1914. [18] The particular injunction of the Evangel of Christ which inspired the sinking of the _Lusitania_ was no doubt "Suffer little children to come unto me." [19] After making this proposal on p. 4, Professor v. Harnack, on p. 6, gives the following account of the Battle of the Marne:--"We have, without any defeat, partly withdrawn our troops to form an iron line of battle from Arras and Noyon to Verdun."