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And now we are ready for the Prussian Creed. The following is an embodiment, a composite statement, of Prussianism, compiled sentence by sentence from the utterances of Prussians, the Kaiser and his generals, professors, editors, and Nietzsche, part of it said in cold blood, years before this war, and all of it a declaration of faith now being ratified by action:
"We Hohenzollerns take our crown from God alone. On me the Spirit of God has descended. I regard my whole. task as appointed by heaven. Who opposes me I shall crush to pieces. Nothing must be settled in this world without the intervention. of. the German Emperor. He who listens to public opinion runs a danger of inflicting immense harm on. the State. When one occupies certain positions in the world one ought to make dupes rather than friends. Christian morality cannot be political. Treaties are only a disguise to conceal other political aims. Remember that the German people are the chosen of God.