266. If the Twilight of the Gods that has now so long brooded over the European race and Kultur is at last to vanish before the light of morning, then we Germans in particular must no longer see in war our destroyer ... but must recognize in it our healer, our physician.--_Taegliche Rundschau_, 12th November, 1912. NIPPOLD, D.C., p. 23. 267. Our own country, by employing its military powers, has attained a degree of Kultur which it never could have reached by the methods of peaceful development.--GENERAL v. BERNHARDI, G.N.W., p. 119. 268. War is to us only a means, but the state of preparation for war is more than a means, it is an end.--PROF. E. HASSE, Z.D.V., p. 126. _See also Nos. 84, 91._ =Blood and Iron.= 269. The time for petty politics is past; the next century[28] will bring the struggle for the dominion of the world--the _compulsion_ to great politics.--FR. NIETZSCHE, B.G.E., section 208. 270. I greet all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!--FR. NIETZSCHE, J.W., section 283. 271. General Keim from Berlin insisted that the path to German unity and power was not paved with sealing-wax, printers' ink and parliamentary resolutions, but marked by blood, wounds and deeds of arms. States could be maintained only by the means by which they were created.--At meeting of Pan-German League, Augsburg, September, 1912. NIPPOLD, D.C., p. 72. 272. It is only since the last war [1870] that a sounder theory has arisen of the State and its military power. Without war no State could be.... War, therefore will endure to the end of history, so long as there is multiplicity of States.--H. v. TREITSCHKE, P., Vol. i., p. 65. 273. We owe it to Napoleon ... that several warlike centuries, which have not had their like in past history, may now follow one another--in short, that we have entered upon _the classical age of war_, war at the same time scientific and popular, on the grandest scale (as regards means, talents and discipline) to which all coming millenniums will look back with envy and awe as a work of perfection--for the national movement out of which this martial glory springs, is only the counter-_choc_ against Napoleon, and would not have existed without him. To him, consequently, one will one day be able to attribute the fact that man in Europe has again got the upper hand of the merchant and the Philistine.--FR. NIETZSCHE, J.W., section 362.