WENDELL PHILLIPS ON PRUSSIA.
What does Prussia represent? She represents the reorganised feudal system of the nineteenth century. <She is a. power marshalled into form by the one purpose of courts and soldiers. She is not a nation; she is an army. Her grout public schools aml all her civil life have a great, if not primary, purpose in the design to make men soldiers. Every man of the population—hanker, mechanic*, tradesman, or scholar —everything hut
the pulpit—goes for t.tie three appointed years into the camp to be disciplined to arms; and Prussia’s policy is an effort to drag the world hack three hundred years. She is the great military outgrowth, the abnormal monstrosity of the iiinetefnitli oenturv.—Wendell Phillips, in 1873.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3982, 15 July 1915, Page 3
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