Excerpt from PersonaliaPerhaps the only justification for publishing a collection of old essays ranging over the last fifteen years is the fear of interesting documents like the Nicolas letters being any day obliterated by some stray manifestation of the Kultur which has given our army and navy so many crowded hours of glorious life and proclaimed to the sensual world that no Hohenzollern will tolerate an age without a name. If we are to welcome Kultur as a school of heroism then let us promote railway accidents, shipwreck, arson, and earth quakes. If not, let us discard all the common cant about war.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.