54. The losses we suffer are--even if the losses of the enemy were ten times more numerous--infinitely greater in value and infinitely more painful.--PROF. A. LASSON, D.R.S.Z., No. 4, p. 8.
54a. One single highly cultured German warrior, of those who are, alas! falling in thousands, represents a higher intellectual and moral life-value than hundreds of the raw children of nature (_Naturmenschen_) whom England and France, Russia and Italy, oppose to them.--PROF. E. HAECKEL, E.W., p. 36.
54b. When one of our ships has to sink, its going-down is even more glorious than a victory.--PROF. U. v. WILAMOWITZ-MÖLLENDORF, R., pt. iii., p. 48.
55. Where German soldiers had to seize the incendiary torch, or even to proceed to the slaughter of citizens, it was only in pursuance of the rights of war, and for protection in real need. Had they obeyed the dictates of their hearts, they would rather have shared their soup and bread with the defenceless foe.... This spirit of humanity we will preserve and cherish to the end.--PROF. W. KAHL, D.R.S.Z., No. 6, p. 5.
56. Lastly, we must not forget the German humour.... It sometimes proceeds from a firm faith in God, sometimes from a cheerful optimism, always from a serenity of spirit which nothing can disturb. Thus German soldiers out in the field, the moment there is a pause in the fighting, set about trying to ride on the camel which they have taken from the Zouaves.... So, too, a non-commissioned officer, during a fight, admonishes a soldier: "Shoot quietly, Kowalski, shoot quietly! You'll frighten away the whole French Army of the North with your confounded banging!"--PASTOR M. HENNIG, D.K.U.W., p. 59.
57. Apart from the fighting quality of these troops, their peaceful work behind all the fronts bears witness to a thorough spiritual culture (_Bildung_) and a living organization such as the world has never seen, and this again indicates an average level of culture in all grades--of spiritual development and moral responsibility--to which no people in the world can show anything in the smallest degree comparable.--H.S. CHAMBERLAIN, D.Z., p. 19.
58. Even when, for once, a Latin writer is favourably disposed towards Germany ... he can see in what moves his admiration nothing but animal vitality. "This terrible Germany," he says, "like a wonderful beast of the jungle, springs upon all its foes and fixes its fangs in them." How sadly he here misinterprets the nature of German heroism!--G. MISCH, V.G.D.K., p. 9.