Maximilian Harden, the journalist, has given a lecture on mili-turism and its significance in the course of his speech saying that the reason why all Europe is against Germany will be found in an lute incapacity to" understand the real spirit of militarism, Other nations envy the military spirit of Germany because they themselves are devoid of it. This envy Mf constitutes a victory for riy, who is destined to crush mitted.
"We find in war," said the es-professor, the elements of hest degree of culture." He on to show how Germany wax unique in this conception of na tional well-being and progress, con tresting unfavourably the motives inspiring Great Britain,—France and Russia, who were at war only for the purpose of achieving such conerete aims as the acquisition of new territory and the extension of commerce. On the contrary, Ge many is inspired by no such the Bi ish and French bourgeoisie and Russian and_abnegation, and establish a new order of things on the principle of "the battle to the strong."
In the "Deutscher Juristische Zeitung" Professor Lange discus. ses at length the right of German Idiers to acquire all metals which cor into their hands in the field of operations, and he utters a warning that the time may come when Germany will have need of such supplies for the manufacture of materials of war.
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