The world has just passed through an agony of pain compared to which the French Revolution was a mere incident. The shock has been so great that it has killed the last spark of hope in the breasts of million of men. They were chanting a hymn of progress, and four years of slaughter followed their prayers for peace. “Is it worth while,” so they ask, “to work and slave for the benefit of creatures who have not yet passed beyond the stage of the earliest cave men?” [...]

Diese schreckliche Umwälzung kann unserer Zeit als nützliches Lehrstück dienen. […] Einem Philosophen […] mag es erlaubt sein, […] Europa als eine große Republik zu betrachten, deren unterschiedliche Bewohner die fast gleiche Höhe der Gesittung und der Kultur erreicht haben.[...]