Excerpt from The Coming War Germany beaten in the field will not be Germany permanently crippled, though she may for some years to come be Germany at a great disadvantage, and also, it should be remembered, a Germany avid to overcome her disadvantages. Germany beaten may quite well be Germany transformed, with Kaiserism banished, and a New Germany built up on the ruins of the old. What will happen then Will the Germany-that-is-to-be, that arises from the ashes of war, lie down and acquiesce in a diminished trade, a falling revenue and crippled resources There is only one possible answer Never l The will to live, the absolute necessity of regaining lost trade and lost capital; of re covering lost prestige in Science and the Arts the impossibility of neglecting the resources she has, and of abandoning what has been successfully begun, will drive Germany to work again with redoubled vigour. Her canals, her railways, her rivers, her harbours will still be there so will her immense resources in coal, so far exceeding ours so also will German perseverance and thoroughness. Nor must it be forgotten that her population was insufficient before the war for her needs in labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.