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Excerpt from The Foundations of Germany: A Documentary Account Revealing the Causes of Her Strength, Wealth and Efficiency
It is no doubt possible to combine the advantages of democratic with those of autocratic government, liberty with efficiency, order, and economy. Democracy need not, and should not, be synonymous with disorganisation, instability, amateurishness, drift, muddle, waste, improvi dence, and unpreparedness for war. The present war has revealed the weakness of Democracy. The views of the greatest German rulers and statesmen collected in this volume may indicate the cure. The experience of the present war may cause Germany to become more democratic and may cause the anglo-saxon democracies to become better organised. The views of Frederick the Great on the defects of democracy and of Cabinet Government should be particularly interesting at the present moment.
The first three chapters have previously been published in The Nineteenth Century and After. The fourth chap ter has appeared in The Contemporary Review. Chapters VI, VII, and VIII have appeared in The Fortnightly Review. Chapters V, IX, X, XI, XII, and XIII are entirely new. I would herewith sincerely thank the Editors of the periodicals named for their permission to reprint these articles. They have been very widely commented upon, and have been republished not only in the British Dominions, in the United States, France, Russia, and Roumania, but even in China. I would, however, draw attention to the fact that these articles have not merely been reprinted, but that they have been very greatly expanded, and that they have provided only the nuclei of the chapters indicated.
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