424. It is an almost sinister self-contradiction: the individual Englishman, in private life, is by no means devoid of a certain outward decency, perhaps because he thinks it pays: but the public morals of England do not shrink from any baseness.--PROF. G. ROETHE, D.R.S.Z., No. 1, p. 14.
425. It is certain that it was in England that humanity first fell sick of the huckster view of the world. But the English ailment had spread further, and above all it had already begun to attack the body of even the German people.--PROF. W. SOMBART, H.U.H., p. 99.
425a. Covetousness, a huckstering spirit, a thirst for gain, calculating envy, hypocrisy--what despicable vices have they not become to us. We spit at them, we hate them, just because they are British.... Now we walk in gentle innocence through homely pastures, free from greed of money, stripped of all cunning, because--just because it is all British.--PASTOR D. VORWERK, quoted in H.A.H., p. 39.
426. The much-lauded missionary spirit was only a business enterprise, by means of which John Bull filled his purse.--"The Christianity of the Belligerent Nations," by PASTOR ERDMANN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 146.
427. England avers that she makes war against us without hatred, and thinks she is thereby giving proof of high civilization. It is precisely the proof of her cold-hearted baseness.... The self-controlled English gentleman, who makes unemotional war out of commercial envy, is more devilish than the Cossack. He stands to the Frenchman in the relation of the sneaking murderer for gain to the murderer from passion. The gentleman-burglar of Conan Doyle expresses the soul of the nation.--O.A.H. SCHMITZ, D.W.D., p. 15.
428. A nice protector of outraged national rights!!! Thus Richard, Duke of Gloucester, appears with prayer-book and rosary on the terrace of the castle, thus Mephistopheles dons the mask of lawyer and philosopher, thus Iscariot kisses the Saviour.--"My German Fatherland," by PASTOR TOLZIEN, quoted in H.A.H., p. 142.
429. Never has the _mass-misery of war_ ... presented itself to us in such grisly shapes as in this terrible world-war, which has been forced upon us _solely_ by the commercial envy and the _brutal egoism_ of the Christian model-state, _England_.--PROF. E. HAECKEL, E.W., p. 27.