ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book exhibits the genesis of the European War and shows what psychological lessons it teaches us. Whatever success Europe may win in the end over Germany's attempt at hegemony, there is no hope that it will be lasting, for the ideal of domination is one of those mystic beliefs whose duration is never brief. A nation which has been chosen by God to conquer and regenerate the world does not readily abandon a mission, and Germany not relinquish it until it has been defeated many times. The German plan of warfare has changed according to circumstances, but throughout the campaign it has always aimed at the conquest of territory-first the rich industrial districts of Belgium and France, then Poland, Lithuania, and Courland in Russia, and finally Constantinople.
