With my whole heart I thank you for the beautiful demonstration of homage which you have shown me. It arises from the feeling that you are proud to have done your duty toward the Fatherland; in the phrase of our Chancellor, you are able to ride, and you will ride down everything that opposes us if all conditions and creeds stand together in firm union. Do not allow this hour of celebration to end like a passing wave of patriotic enthusiasm, but stand firmly to the path on which you have started. I close with the words of the great poet Kleist in his "Prince von Homburg" when old Kottwitz speaks to the Great Elector somewhat as follows: "What do we care for the rules according to which the enemy fights if he is beaten in the fighting? We have now learned the art of conquering him and are filled with the desire to practise it further."[42] [42] The exact passage runs as follows, though the lines are separated in the play and do not occur in this order: "What, I pray you, do you care for the rule According to which the enemy fights, if only He goes down before you with all his flags? The rule that conquers him is the highest rule." ACT V, SCENE 5. THE NECESSITY OF FAITH MÜNSTER, AUGUST 31, 1907 The following address of a general character, which represents the Emperor's faith in God and in Germany, was delivered at a banquet in the Westphalian Provincial Museum. It is somewhat similar in its general attitude to the one delivered about a month later at the unveiling of the national monument at Memel. I wish to express to the representatives of the province whom I have gathered about me to-day my warmest thanks for the way in which I have everywhere been received in this beautiful country of Westphalia. I would also like to repeat to you in the name of her Majesty, the Empress and Queen, how disconsolate she is that it was unfortunately not possible for her to celebrate the Westphalian days with you and to come into personal contact with the Westphalian people.