ISBN: 9780217181266

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1916 Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTION A Writer who publicly takes part against his own country when it is engaged in a fierce struggle against hostile Powers does so at a terrible risk, a risk of more than life. The prosperity, nay, the very endurance, of any organised community depends on the loyalty of its members to the common ideals and the common good of the society as a whole. The more gravely these ideals and interests seem to be imperilled, the deeper and more dangerous becomes the responsibility of those who in any way seem to make common cause with the foe. It is not only natural and inevitable, it is also just and right, that they should be held sternly to account, and that the sincerity and purity of their motives should be probed to the uttermost. Nor will even the purest of intentions serve to protect them against the stigma of dishonour if they are shown to be moved by no earnest and reasoned conviction, but merely by that perversity, levity, or exaggerated individualism which may lead some minds that shine harmlessly in the everyday tournament of intellectual forces to throw themselves into fatal opposition to some profound national impulse which mere intellect could never have created, and cannot even comprehend. Yet no one can deny that crises may come, and have come again and again in history from the time of Micaiah the son of Imla to that of Edmund Burke, when to prophesy smooth things to a warring people is the worst of betrayals, and to rebuke its madness and passion the truest loyalty. Then a man to whom a vision of the truth has been given must take his life in his hand and speak his mind, confident that he will be justified by time and reason, and, above all, by his own conscience. Germany has produced such men. In this little book one of them is made know... Hermann Fernau, Books, Fiction and Literature, Because I am a German Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217181266

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ISBN: 0217181260

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