Chapter I: Introduction: 1

I. AN AMERICAN PREFACE 7

II. MY FORECASTS OF 1906 AND 1912 12

III. THE CURSE OF THE HOHENZOLLERN 53

IV. THE GERMAN WAR-TRIUMVIRATE 85
(i.) Nietzsche.
(ii.) Montaigne and Nietzsche.
(iii.) Treitschke.
(iv.) Bernhardi.

V. FREDERICK THE GREAT 136

VI. THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOETHE 142

VII. THE SERVICE OF THE CITY IN GERMANY 148

VIII. THE NEGLECT OF GERMAN 159

IX. MECKLENBURG, THE PARADISE OF PRUSSIAN JUNKERTHUM 164

X. THE GERMAN RACE HERESY AND THE WAR 169

XI. A SLUMP IN GERMAN THEOLOGY 183

XII. THE GERMAN ENIGMA 189

XIII. THE TRAGIC ISOLATION OF GERMANY 196

XIV. RUSSIA AND GERMANY 203

XV. THE PEACEMAKER OF GERMANY: PRINCE VON BÜLOW 218

XVI. THE SILENCE OF HERR VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG 226

XVII. THE COMING REVOLUTION IN GERMANY 231

XVIII. VIA PACIS 248

APPENDIX: THE PRIVATE MORALITY OF THE PRUSSIAN KINGS 255

GERMAN PROBLEMS AND PERSONALITIES