Chapter V: The Statecraft of a Priesthood

German education a drill system 127
Intellectuals are ranged on the government side 129
Eighteenth-century France and modern Germany 129
Contrast between their bureaucracies 130
Between the attitude of their intellectuals 131
Between their fashions of fancy dress 131
Dangers to civilisation from within and without 132
Political thinkers are usually destructive 133
Unfitness of priesthoods for practical affairs 135
Contrast between priests and lawyers 137
Natural affinity between soldiers and priests 139
Unforeseen consequences of German thoroughness 140
May lead ultimately to ostracism of Germany 140
Types of German agents 141
Treacherous activities in time of peace 142
The German political creed 144
The true aim of this war 146