460. Our duty to ourselves, and to our English fellow-creatures--since we would fain be, not an imaginary "chosen people" but true children of God--is to give them such a thorough thrashing that they may once for all be cured of the fatal illusion that they have established a monopoly in the dear Lord God, and that the rest of humanity is destined only to serve as a stool for their clumsy feet!--PROF. A. SCHRÖER, Z.C.E., p. 70.
461. Perhaps the reason that England's power now stands in so great peril is that, in her self-deceiving vanity, she thought that God had guaranteed her the dominion of the world.--PASTOR M. HENNIG, D.K.U.W., P. 86.
462. It is a matter of fact that the greater part of the English people cherish the pathological imagination that they alone are the true pioneers of Kultur and culture.--PROF. E. HAECKEL, E.W., p. 115.
463. The English now assert the claim of _their_ Kultur to be the only existing, and, indeed, the _God-appointed_ summit of human development, which to attain would mean salvation for all humanity. This is a positively grotesque mixture of national pride and religiosity.--PROF. A. SCHRÖER, Z.C.E., p. 12.
464. "England über alles" has in England a very solid meaning, as compared with our quite ideally conceived "Deutschland über alles." An immense self-assurance, partly reposing on the notion of being in a special sense God's chosen people, gives to these claims a certain inward foundation. In the consciousness of an alleged superiority of moral Kultur, the English aspire to rule the world.--PROF. R. SEEBERG, D.R.S.Z., No. 15, p. 28.
465. Alone among Kultur-peoples, the English know only themselves, and regard all others, without exception, as foreign, inferior creatures, towards whom Nature decrees that the laws of morality, as between man and man, should not hold good, any more than they hold good towards animals and plants.[44]--PROF. A. SCHRÖER, Z.C.E., p. 49.
466. There are, of course, many sincerely pious Christians in England. But either they are impotent as against the prevailing passion, or they are blinded by the illusion of the "chosen people," and have therefore lost all power of sober self-criticism.--OBERLEHRER HERMANN SCHUSTER, D.K.K.