Excerpt from Gaul or Teuton?: Considerations as to Our Allies of the Future Pity, that the clemency of the victors of Sedan would be commensurate with their success, leaving both without any parallel in history. But that clemency would have been more generous than wise, for France had not yet learned to loathe N apoleonism even after Sedan. The Napoleonic legend still survived, and one victory would have fatally restored its pernicious vigour. To the fact that Germany followed up Sedan with its hundred thousand prisoners, ...
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Excerpt from Gaul or Teuton?: Considerations as to Our Allies of the Future Pity, that the clemency of the victors of Sedan would be commensurate with their success, leaving both without any parallel in history. But that clemency would have been more generous than wise, for France had not yet learned to loathe N apoleonism even after Sedan. The Napoleonic legend still survived, and one victory would have fatally restored its pernicious vigour. To the fact that Germany followed up Sedan with its hundred thousand prisoners, by Metz with twice that number, and Paris with four times as many, Europe owes the destruction of Napoleonism, its greatest curse and danger. If, then, deliverance from the distorted and immoral traditions which deluged Europe with blood for the gratification of French vain-glory be a service to humanity, Germany is entitled to the gratitude of mankind. The continental nations owe her the first tribute, England owes her the second, if indeed France herself does not benefit in a greater degree. To Germany France owes her emancipation from that personal rule whose debasing and enervating effects she now acknow ledges and deplores The right of self government and the dignity of a really free people are cheaply purchased at the price of a military supremacy for which France is morally unfit. That unfitness has been at all times too manifest in French history. It was very recently displayed in the reliance of the late Emperor upon an iniquitous seizure of Belgium, a friendly and allied state, as the means of strengthening his own popularity. Feelings of friendship to a recent ally may naturally afi'ect Englishmen; but we should remember that in most continental wars we are only spectators of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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