ABSTRACT
The American intervention saved the life of the German Empire as a disturber of the peace, by saving the German forces from conclusive defeat, and so saving the rule of the kept classes in Germany. It is doubtless the largest, profoundest, and most enduring effect brought upon the Americans by America's intervention in the great war. Typically, dementia praecox is a distemper of adolescence or of early manhood, at least such appears to be the presumption held among psychiatrists. The peculiar liability of adolescent males carries the open suggestion that a similar degree of liability should extend to those males of more advanced years in whom a puerile mentality persists, men in whom a boyish temper continues into later life. A degree of puerile exuberance coupled with a certain truculent temper and boyish cunning is likely to command something of popular admiration and affection, which is likely to have a certain selective effect in the democratic choice of officials.
