![]() ![]() time from the press of a country exhausted by protracted blockade and warfare that it should outsell the most popular fiction- to the extent of ninety thousand copies - in defeated and impoverished Germany, and be translated almost at once into the leading Continental languages and that it should become the subject of a literature so voluminous as to justify already a special volume of bibliography, are facts extraordinary enough to make its thesis a matter of universal interest, if only as a symbol of the age. That such a book should appear at such a. It is a monumental work - if not in sheer magnitude, at least in substance and design. ![]() IN July 1918, when the quick finale of the Great War already loomed directly ahead, a German Oberlehrer hitherto unknown to the world of thought and letters published the first volume of a work so original and profound, and so revolutionary in theory, that it bids fair to mark an epoch in man’s interpretation of himself in history. ![]()
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