Menu
1
150
300
450
600
750

Essays and addresses

R out, of four in the turmoil and anxiety, the dislocation of business and uneasiness of a Presidential election; they may rejoice in a system which does not permit taking the opinion of the electorate except at times rigidly and unchangeably fixed by a written document; they may reverence their Con- stitutions, etc, in what seems to us a most undemocratic way.

That is their own business ; and it would be a sheer impertinence in any but an American to criticize ; they do not seek to impose their system upon others, and so have the right to expect others to leave it alone in word and in deed.

The Prussian has imposed his system, in fact, upon all Germany, and makes no concealment or at least until but the other day made no concealment of the doctrine he entertained that he was to mould the world to his ways, that he was the predestined regulator of the affairs of all peoples.

It is the unutterable and colossal self-conceit of the Prussian which is the real danger threatening the world to-day.

He first, with his doctrine of divine right, places the,.