ABSTRACT
The opinions which are generally held in Germany with regard to the causes of the war. The German diplomats was at least some probability in what they said, which was far from being the case with the Teutonic professors, whose mentality is apparently upon a far lower plane. Most of the German military men who have given their opinions also share the idea which is so prevalent in Germany, that the war was instigated by England; but some of them ascribe it merely to the hasty mobilization of Russia. The much-discussed Wolff Bureau was the chief among several news agencies which were instructed to work upon German public opinion continually. The neutral opinion about the causes of the war has not been a result of observation of fact or rational verification, but has been due to affective or mystic inclinations.
