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The Holy War

the same spirit as Grothe's, although it is favourably distinguished from the latter by its more moderate tone and, it goes without saying, by its knowledge of Islâm.

Becker materially supplements Grothe's picture of the future relations between Germany and Turkey, by including in his program of protection of Turkey the military and political renascence of the Empire of the Crescent, in order that it may be re-created into a modern constitutional state with a respectable army. Not only German products and German capital, but also German spirit must set to work in Turkey. It must do so according to a better method than that used by France and England in their colonies: "a sound common-school edu-


    Interessengemeinschaft" (Community of Interests between Germany and Turkey); in the Süddeutsche Monatshefte an article "England und Egypten," and in Das Grössere Deutschland an article "England und der Islam."