Military Despotism: Mr. Hume Pinsent, lecturing at a meeting of the Birmingham branch of the Historical Association on “Some Reasons for the War,’’ last night, said the reason England had found it necessary to oppose the military despotism of Prussia was that the military despotism must, the very law of its being, try extend its dominion and influence by the conquest of other States; and the result of any such extension was not only increased power of the aggressor, but the imposition it its aims and ideals, well as moral, political, and social principles upon the conquered people. To the German Emperor the gospel German supremacy preached by Treitschke and Bernhardi was congenial, and for him it took the shape that the regeneration of the world was to come from the imposition upon mankind by force of arms and at the point of the sword not only of German methods and organisation, social and political, but also of German methods of education, science, and culture.
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GRO0435 Devonport: Hume Chancellor Pinsent: 1857 – 1920