. The Great war. ion, although less advanced than in westernEurope, was slowly but surely undermining the traditionalauthority of the Junkers, blighting their prestige by itsprofane touch. Experience has shown, moreover, thatthe patriotic fervor born in brilliant victories, by creatingan excessive spirit of devotion to national ideals and preju-dices, strengthens traditional institutions and privileges. The extreme Conservatives demanded a modification inthe political franchise of the empire. This view is repre-sented in an interesting political monograph which appearedin 1912, entitled, If I
. The Great war. ion, although less advanced than in westernEurope, was slowly but surely undermining the traditionalauthority of the Junkers, blighting their prestige by itsprofane touch. Experience has shown, moreover, thatthe patriotic fervor born in brilliant victories, by creatingan excessive spirit of devotion to national ideals and preju-dices, strengthens traditional institutions and privileges. The extreme Conservatives demanded a modification inthe political franchise of the empire. This view is repre-sented in an interesting political monograph which appearedin 1912, entitled, If I were Kaiser {Wenn ich der Kaiserwar), in which the author, Herr Frymann declared: Politically, the German nation is ill unto death. It canbe saved only by an alteration of the constitution, and ifthe constitution cannot be altered owing to the oppositionof parliament, then it must be altered notwithstanding thewill of parliament, exactly as a father orders the surgeonto operate on a child against the childs 4& 5 E x > IL _ <o II^jiK -*?* ^-Hr^
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