ment in Europe were suddenly overwhelmed by a flood of work and care. The strenuous, incessant toil in the consula

not until later that the nature of the disaster grew clear and poignant. As month after month hammered swiftly by, t

said, "Frankly, we are and must be barbarians" (Von Diefurth, Hamburger Nachrichten), while their philosophers declared that "The German is the superior type of the species homo sapiens" (Woltmann); a nation whose Imperial Head commended to his soldiers the example of the Huns, and proclaimed, "It is to the empire of the world that the German genius aspires" (Kaiser Wilhelm, Speech at Aix-la-Chape