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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War and the Future by H. G. Wells: The German is a patriotic monomaniac. He is not a man but a
limb, the worshipper of a national effigy, the digit of an
insanely proud and greedy Germania, and here are the natural
consequences.
The case of the individual Italian compactly is this: "We do not
like the Austrians and Germans. These Imperialisms look always
over the Alps. Whatever increases German influence here
threatens Italian life. The German is a German first and a human
being afterwards.... But on the other hand England seems
commercially indifferent to us and France has been economically
hostile..."
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