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A TEUTONIC ETHIC

—“The professed ethic of Europe and America is a pacifistic christianity. The actual ethic is the militaristic code off the marauding teutons from whom the ruling strata almost everywhere in Europe are derived. The practice of dueling in catholic France and protestant Germany is a tenacious relic of the original teutonic code. Our moralists are kept busy apologizing for these contradictions, just as the moralists of a later monogamous Greece and India explained the were hard put to it to explain the conduct of gods that had been fashioned in an earlier more promiscuous age.”— Durant