Text Appearing Before Image: omthe great heritage belongs. The ascendancy of nosingle other caste excels their influence on affairsof State. Professors of divinity and history areamong the favourite councillors of the Kaiser. Aprofessor has become Prime Minister of Bavaria.Another has represented Germany at two HagueConferences. Still another co-operates in the leader-ship of the National Liberal Party. It is fromHarnack, Delitzsch and Pfieiderer, the theologians ;from Wagner, Schmoller and Bernhard, the political-economists ; from Schiemann, Meyer and Delbrlick,the historians; from Haeckel and Ostwald, thephilosophers ; from Zom, Kohler and Von Liszt,the jurists, that modern, mighty, material Germanyderives its chief intellectual inspiration. Mr. ArnoldBennett might write another Milestones aroundthe unerring accuracy with which the history ofGerman thought-moulding has repeated itself. Asthe professors of 1813 vowed to Vassal Prussia thather day would yet dawn, so it is their progeny in116 0 » <J O 7 »J 13 Text Appearing After Image: PROFESSOR DELBROCK the Kaisers epoch which is educating the nationto beheve in the glory that will be Germanyswhen the British Empire crumbles and the MonroeDoctrine is blown into oblivion. It is they who areinculcating in Germans the sinfulness of arbitrationtreaties and the blessings of armaments. Foremost among the apostles of the forwardmovement in Germany in the age of Tirpitz andBallin is Professor Hans Delbriick, successor ofTreitschke in the Chair of History at the Universityof BerHn. He stands out from among the scholarlymany because of his independence, influence andwider audience. His fellow professors confinetheir activities more or less to guiding the flowerof German intelligence as it filters through theirclass-rooms at the Universities. In the PreussischeJahrbiicher, the monthly review which he edits,Delbriick addresses the country. The master of atrenchant pen, he does not indulge in the tricks oflanguage one encounters in the Zukunft, nor splutterwith the vehemence of
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