Cruelty impresses, people, want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed.
The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.
People are so blind to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.
