In these slight notes I have suggested the principal strong points of the Prussian character.  A failure in honour which almost amounts to a failure in memory:  an egomania that is honestly blind to the fact that the other party is an ego; and, above all, an actual itch for tyranny and interference, the devil which everywhere torments the idle and the proud.  To these must be added a certain mental shapelessness which can expand or contract without reference to reason or record; a potential infinity of excuses.  If the English had been on the German side, the German professors would have noted what irresistible energies had evolved the Teutons.  As the English are on the other side, the German professors will say that these Teutons were not sufficiently evolved.  Or they will say that they were just sufficiently evolved to show that they were not Teutons.  Probably they will say both.  But the truth is that all that they call evolution should rather be called evasion.  They tell us they are opening windows of enlightenment and doors of progress.  The truth is that they are breaking up the whole house of the human intellect, that they may abscond in any direction.  There is an ominous and almost monstrous parallel between the position of their over-rated philosophers and of their comparatively under-rated soldiers.  For what their professors call roads of progress are really routes of escape.

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