322. If we are to carry on the warlike education of our people--and we are resolved to do so--then we by that very fact affirm our constant readiness again to enter upon a war, as soon as our honour, our inward or outward growth, or the expansive tendencies rooted in the inmost nature of our people, demand it.--PASTOR D. BAUMGARTEN, D.R.S.Z., No. 24, p. 17. 323. The incomparably greater efficiency of army administration, even in questions of civil life, has everywhere made a deep impression during the present war, and has opened the eyes of many. One has constantly heard people exclaim: "Oh, it could only continue after the war!"--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, P.I., p. 116. 324. Oh, that Germany would learn from this war to send out soldiers only--Generals and ex-officers of the General Staff--as German diplomatists, ambassadors and consuls!--K.L.A. SCHMIDT, D.E.E., p. 17. 325. We must not look for permanent peace as a result of this war. Heaven defend Germany from that.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 19. _See also Nos. 91, 192a, 195, 217._ FOOTNOTES: [26] Down to this point Burckhardt is condensing a paragraph from Ernst v. Lasaulx, "Philosophie der Geschichte," 1856 p. 85. [27] Quoted in original. [28] Written in 1885. [29] Klaus Wagner (_Krieg_, p. 223) has a long statistical argument to the same effect. He says that 41,000 men lost their lives in 1870-71, and estimates on this basis that, in a repetition of that war, the Germany of his own time (1906) would lose only one man in every 1,600 of her population. The confident assumption that the next war could be nothing but 1870 over again underlies all German speculation on the subject. [30] From Schiller's _Wallensteins Lager_. IV RUTHLESSNESS IV RUTHLESSNESS (BEFORE THE WAR.) 326. War is an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.... Insignificant limitations, hardly worthy of mention, which it imposes on itself, under the name of the law of nations, accompany this violence without notably enfeebling it.--GENERAL C v. CLAUSEWITZ, V.K., Vol. i., p. 4. 327. I warn you against pity: from it will one day arise a heavy cloud for men. Verily, I am weatherwise!--FR. NIETZSCHE, Z. _Of the Pitiful._ 328. The Germans let the primitive Prussian tribes decide whether they should be put to the sword or thoroughly Germanized. Cruel as these processes of transformation may be, they are a blessing for humanity. It makes for health that the nobler race should absorb the inferior stock.--H. v. TREITSCHKE, P., Vol. i, p. 121. 329. Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different persons--the former does not behold the sight, therefore does not experience the strong impression on the imagination; the latter obeys a superior and therefore feels no responsibility.--FR. NIETZSCHE, H.T.H., section 101.