Homo Sapiens

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...many such elements in Germany--Papists, Bavarians, Socialists, Danes." "Very well. But if that's the case, then why boast of fearing nothing but God? Why lie about it? Why not openly admit that Prussia is a weak state, or, better still, not a state at all? Admit that Prussia is poor and insignificant, because a handful of Poles can thrust your pitiful Grosse Nation from the saddle, and in union with the Wends on the Spree and the Silesian Lusatians can capture Berlin and crush that wretched nation of half-breeds composed of Jews, the dregs of the Slav races, and militarists. Therefore the Poles must be destroyed. Your sour patriotism in face of this fear of the Slavs looks very much like the ludicrous somersaults of a clown through a paper ring." Falk spoke with heat. "Very well, granted Germany is not a separate nationality, nor even wants to be one; yet it is important that she achieve economic power; and therefore, it may be said, the means by which she obtains economic power make no difference, since her concern is not Germany, but money. At the same time you must also frankly say: 'We are a nation of half-breeds. Three wars have thrown us together in a heap without rhyme or reason. We are not a nation. We are tradesmen, farmers. Everything in the way of our economic development we will trample under foot ruthlessly.'--But, gentlemen, to speak of danger to the country is a disgrace; to speak of the patriotic necessity for the complete destruction of the Poles is cowardice; to say Wir filrchten nur Gott is a decoy for none but fat saloonkeepers. "In a word, either we must set aside hypocrisy and confess we are scoundrels violating the rights of nations and caring not a hang about them, because we are a nation of tradesmen, usurer...