The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1914. THE GERMAN MIND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 307, 28 December 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1914. THE GERMAN MIND.

Possibly a true conception of the German frame of mind is to be had from the address lately given in Berlin by Professor Erich Marcks, writes a London correspondent in the course of an interesting letter dealing with the attitude of Germany towards Britain. The Professor has for many years been considered in Germany as a man of light and leading. Some years ago he gave a lecture at the German Athenaeum in London on the subject of the relations between Britain and Germany. His thesis then was that unless Britain changed her policy and accepted German ideas and the German programme of the world's future, Germany would have to attack her. He now says that Britain is Germany's' deadly enemy, and that Germany's aim is to do away with the old maritime supremacy of Britain and to es-j tablish a new Central Europe under i Germany's leadership. The war is in his view the outburst of a deadly enmity. It has aroused and set free the most profound powers of the German mind and of German "Kultur," alias "civilisation." Germany in the professor's view is the hero and object of ' the war, and is "the world-nation manifesting itself." Apparently the ideas of Herr Marcks are shared by the leaders of German thought. They have been taught in German schools and universities for many years, and they inspire and animate the whole German people and its Government.