CHAPTER IV

THE NEW MORALISTS

Germany goes in search of an ethical basis 113 Special grievances against France and England 114 German thinkers recast Christian morals 115 Heinrich von Treitschke 116 _The principle of the state is power_ 117 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 118 His contempt for British and Prussian ideals 119 General von Bernhardi 122 New morality never accepted by the German people 123 Thrown over even by 'the brethren' when war occurred 124 Causes of this apostasy 126