Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review or Critical Journal, Vol. 228 Those lessons may be grouped under the following headings (1) responsibility for war; (2) conduct of war; (3) aims of war; (4) views on peace and the future. It is desirable for us to understand the German mind on these questions; and every source of serious information should be utilized to that end. The writers under discussion have, of course, other ends in View and do not set out their subjects enumerated in that order or in that way but they furnish enlightenment on all of them in expounding their own special themes. Each of these writers has his own point of view and deals mainly with his own subjects, the nature of which is indicated by the titles of the books. The soldier is concerned with military affairs, the political publicist with politics, and in a lesser degree with economics; the Socialist with economics and juridical questions, on which he contributes a remarkably fresh and interesting discussion. But they all overlap into each other's domains: the soldier lays stress on economic factors, the politician hazards a good deal of speculation about future military conditions, and the Socialist takes both political and military considerations into account. All deal in some measure with the questions enumerated above, and, differently as they approach them, come in the end to con elusions which are practically the same or only divergent in so far as they relate to subsidiary points, or are conditioned by ultimate principles and aims. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.