AS OTHERS SEE US.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 44, 8 June 1917, Page 8

AS OTHERS SEE US.

SOME GERMAN COMPLIMENTS,

Tho following comments are taken from “Five Hundred and One Gems of German Thought,” edited by William Archer: —

The climate, the want of wine, and lack of beautiful scenery have all been obstacles in tho way of English Kultur—H. von Trcitschke.

England's strength resides in arrogant self-esteem; Germany's greatness in the modest appreciation of everything foreign. England is self-seeking to tho point of insanity; Germany is just, even to self-deprecation.—Th. Fontanc.

The war has laid bare the British soul, and a cold shudder goes through the Germanic Kultur-world.— l“Hermanns. ’'

No people has done so much harm to civilisation as the English—o. A. H. Schmitz.

England has nothing but the instincts of a beast of prey. This alone can explain her foreign and domestic policy of the past decades. Her one object has been to increase her outward possessions and to let her own people starve. —K. L. A. Schmidt. We cannot expect our enemies to try to do us justice—though we can, after all, sympathetically understand almost all of them, with tho sole exception of tho English, in whom tho transparently base abstractness of tho calculating business spirit lies beneath tho level of humanity, and is so positively immoral as to be entirely outside the scope of sympathy.—G. Misch. England is a Moloch that will devour everything, a vampire that wdll suck tribute from all the veins of the earth, a monster snake encircling the whole Equator. —Pastor Tolzien. Another vice has been developed to its highest pitch in this war—to wit, lying. England in particular has established a record in this department, even as against the Father of Lies, the Devil. —F. Delitzsch.

Envy is utterly foreign to the Gorman nature. But one exception wo must now admit. We old fellows . . .

look with envy at the young, who arc risking their fresh life and strength for tho Fatherland. Of this envy, at any rate, we must acquit England; its best youth remains quietly at home, and wins victories in the football field, leaving it to salaried hirelings to shed their blood.—Prof. G. Roothe.

The cunning and unscrupulousness of the pirate does, ineed, survive in the English sailor; he lies in ambush for neutral merchant ships, lays mines in tho fairway of neutral neighbour States, and commits deeds of violence of tho most manifold kinds; but the resolution of the pirate, tho daring intrepidity in attack, ho no longer possesses.— ‘ 1 G ermanus. ’ ’

The untruthfulness and unscrupulous brutality with which the English Cabinet carries on tho war place it far below the level of Muscovite morality.— “Germanus.”