462. It is a matter of fact that the greater part of the English people cherish the pathological imagination that they alone are the true pioneers of Kultur and culture.--PROF. E. HAECKEL, E.W., p. 115. 463. The English now assert the claim of _their_ Kultur to be the only existing, and, indeed, the _God-appointed_ summit of human development, which to attain would mean salvation for all humanity. This is a positively grotesque mixture of national pride and religiosity.--PROF. A. SCHROeER, Z.C.E., p. 12. 464. "England ueber alles" has in England a very solid meaning, as compared with our quite ideally conceived "Deutschland ueber alles." An immense self-assurance, partly reposing on the notion of being in a special sense God's chosen people, gives to these claims a certain inward foundation. In the consciousness of an alleged superiority of moral Kultur, the English aspire to rule the world.--PROF. R. SEEBERG, D.R.S.Z., No. 15, p. 28. 465. Alone among Kultur-peoples, the English know only themselves, and regard all others, without exception, as foreign, inferior creatures, towards whom Nature decrees that the laws of morality, as between man and man, should not hold good, any more than they hold good towards animals and plants.[44]--PROF. A. SCHROeER, Z.C.E., p. 49. 466. There are, of course, many sincerely pious Christians in England. But either they are impotent as against the prevailing passion, or they are blinded by the illusion of the "chosen people," and have therefore lost all power of sober self-criticism.--OBERLEHRER HERMANN SCHUSTER, D.K.K. =Comic Relief.= 467. England understands by freedom only club-law, with the club always in her own hand.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 22. 468. Since the Cromwellian rule of the sword, the army is so hated in England that an officer, going on duty from his home to the barracks, has to drive in a closed carriage.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 41. 469. I found everywhere in England, during my last visits in 1907 and 1908, a positively terrifying blind hatred for Germany, and impatient longing for a war of annihilation.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 12. 470. England's army of postal officials amounts to 213,000, distributed through 24,245 post offices; the German Empire has 50,500 post offices and 305,000 officials. Now we can understand--can we not?--why England envies us.--PASTOR M. HENNIG, D.K.U.W., p. 39. 471. One finds in England no geniality, no broad, kindly humour, no gaiety. Everything--so far as the outward life is concerned--is hurry, money, noise, ostentation, snobbery, vulgarity, arrogance, discontent, envy.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, K.A., p. 60. 472. King Edward VII., while he was Prince of Wales, was often a guest of the London Savage Club, which is so "exclusive" that the Prince could not become a member.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 131.