427. England avers that she makes war against us without hatred, and thinks she is thereby giving proof of high civilization. It is precisely the proof of her cold-hearted baseness.... The self-controlled English gentleman, who makes unemotional war out of commercial envy, is more devilish than the Cossack. He stands to the Frenchman in the relation of the sneaking murderer for gain to the murderer from passion. The gentleman-burglar of Conan Doyle expresses the soul of the nation.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 15. 428. A nice protector of outraged national rights!!! Thus Richard, Duke of Gloucester, appears with prayer-book and rosary on the terrace of the castle, thus Mephistopheles dons the mask of lawyer and philosopher, thus Iscariot kisses the Saviour.--"My German Fatherland," by PASTOR TOLZIEN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 142. 429. Never has the _mass-misery of war_ ... presented itself to us in such grisly shapes as in this terrible world-war, which has been forced upon us _solely_ by the commercial envy and the _brutal egoism_ of the Christian model-state, _England_.--PROF. E. HAECKEL, E.W., p. 27. =British Vices--Cowardice and Laziness.= 430. It is the English who may justly be accused of militarism--the people who, in addition to Irish and Scottish hirelings (they themselves, as a rule, prefer to remain at home) place Hindus and Indian mountaineers in the field.--PROF. W. WUNDT, D.N.I.P., p. 143. 431. Envy is utterly foreign to the German nature. But _one_ exception we must now admit. We old fellows ... look with envy at the young, who are risking their fresh life and strength for the Fatherland. Of this envy, at any rate, we must acquit England: its best youth remains quietly at home, and wins victories in the football field, leaving it to salaried hirelings to shed their blood.--PROF. G. ROETHE, D.R.S.Z., No. 1, p. 11. 432. The doctrine of comfort, as a view of the world, certainly comes of evil, and a people who are filled with it, like the English, are little more than a heap of living corpses. The whole body of the people begins to rot.... In England to-day every trade unionist is stuck in the morass of comfort.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 102. 433. As soon as it comes to the sanguinary reality, the English hireling's heart drops into his breeches. And the English Scotchmen have not even breeches for it to drop into.--O. SIEMENS, W.L.K.D., p. 19. 434. Whence should courage come?... In our German soldiers it springs from honest German wrath. But the Englishman must shout himself into courage. When the first English troops landed in France, they sang gaily and interrupted their songs by shouts of "Are we down-hearted?" Whereupon the English hireling sought to keep up his spirits by an answering shout of "No!" ... Only their own timidity suggests to the English such questions as to their courage. One need not be any great psychologist to realize this.--O. SIEMENS, W.L.K.D., p. 19.