 Christianity — and this is its highest merit — has, in some degree, softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming talisman, the Cross, breaks in two, the savagery of the old fighters, the senseless Berserker...  Heart of Europe - Page 314by Ralph Adams Cram - 1915 - 325 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Heinrich Heine - German Literature - 1887 - 380 pages
...when it will crumble and fall. Then the ancient stone gods will arise from out the ashes of dismantled ruins, and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes ; and finally Thor, with his colossal hammer, will leap up, and with it shatter into fragments the... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen - Germany - 1914 - 204 pages
...Christianity — and this is its highest merit — has in some degree softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming...spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals." — Quoted in a letter to " The Times," September 21st, 1914. WHAT VON BERNHARDI SAYS " We may expect... | |
 | Pangermanism - 1914 - 146 pages
...— and this is its highest merit — has, in some degree, softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming...spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals." !! Professor Matthews thinks that in the field of science, pure and applied, the defenders of the supremacy... | |
 | Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen, Alfred Maurice Low - Truth about Germany - 1914 - 300 pages
...destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming talisman, the Cross, breaks in twoT the savagery of the old fighters, the senseless Berserker...spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals." — Quoted in a letter to " The Times, " September 21st, 1914. WHAT VON BERNHARDI SAYS "We may expect... | |
 | James William White - Bibliography - 1915 - 564 pages
...— and this is its highest merit — has, in some degree, softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming...spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals!!" Professor Matthews thinks that in the field of science, pure and applied, the defenders of the supremacy... | |
 | J. William White - World War, 1914-1918 - 1915 - 152 pages
...Christianity—and this is its highest merit— has, in some degree, softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming...spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals \ " Professor Matthews thinks that in the field of science, pure and applied, the defenders of the... | |
 | Ralph Shirley - Occultism - 1915 - 88 pages
...Christianity — and this is its highest merit — has in some degree softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming...spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals. It will be seen that Heine fully realized that German Christianity is but skin deep, but as long as... | |
 | Sir Oliver Lodge - Forecasting - 1915 - 258 pages
...when it will crumble and fall. Then the ancient stone-gods will arise from out the ashes of dismantled ruins, and rub the dust of a thousand years from their eyes ; and finally, Thor, with his colossal hammer, will leap up, and with it shatter into fragments the... | |
 | Coleman Phillipson - Germany - 1916 - 442 pages
...Christianity — and this is its highest merit — has in some degree softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German joy of battle. When once the taming...spring up, and shatter to bits the Gothic cathedrals." The modern Germans have evidently 1 Houssaye, " 1815," vol. ii. p. 843. • Ibid., p. 490. not benefited... | |
 | Eden Phillpotts - English fiction - 1916 - 416 pages
...is its highest merit, has in some degree softened, but it could not destroy, that brutal German love of battle. When once the taming talisman, the Cross,...giant's hammer, will at last spring up and shatter to pieces the Gothic cathedrals.' There ! What do you think of that, my friend?" " He knew, whoever he... | |
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