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and will be so in future when it comes to preserving the national interest. I deem the brotherhood of nation a complete utopia, a dream that will never come true. Even among the white races a lasting reconciliation is hardly conceivable, let alone with the immense human material [sic] of the yellow and black races. If epidemics or major natural catastrophes can’t dent the growing overpopulation, then major wars will have to do the balancing.
In the same book I’ve found an excerpt from a French magazine of 1870, ‘’Le Volontaire’’,
which could have been written yesterday or today:
As of 16th of August, the Germans have already lost 144,000 men; the others are
near starvation. From Germany the last reserves arrive, the Landwehr and the Landsturm; 60-year-old men with flintlock guns, carrying on their right side a huge tobacco tin, on their left a still bigger bottle of booze, in their mouth a long clay pipe;