Germany as I Saw Her.

The article focuses on the author's philosophical opinion about Germany. According to him there is something overwhelming in the spectacle of a great nation lying prostrate in utter collapse. Whether one regards Germany's present fate as a kind of divine punishment for overweening insolence, or think of her as a sturdy nation surrounded and ultimately crushed by jealous and grasping neighbors equally alarmed at her military power and her growing commercial success, there is occasion for what the poet called the tears of mortality in such a doom.