The Spectator at war: Germany’s moral code

From ‘Germania Contra Mundum‘, The Spectator, 31 July 1915:

It may be said that, in the domain of international relations, the triumph of the German arms would substitute the perpetuation of a state of war rather than the maintenance of peace as the ideal goal which the rulers of the world should seek to attain. The leaders of German thought, indeed, openly avow that “war is the noblest and highest expression of human activity.” The predominance of German principles would foster discord in the place of amity and suspicion in the place of confidence. Mr. Oliver scarcely overshoots the mark when he says that the new German code of morals, “if universally adhered to, would make an end of human society.”