Ale v Nemecku se pozvolna ve škole, v tisku, v humoristických casopisech, pestovala taková predstava Anglicana a skoro ješte víc jeho ríše, jež musela vést k nejhoršímu sebeklamu, a protože tímto nesmyslem bylo nakaženo témer vše, následovalo podcenování, které se pak velmi zle vymstilo.
In Germany, however, the school, the press, and comic magazines cultivated a conception of the Englishman's character, and almost more so of his empire, which inevitably led to one of the most insidious delusions; for gradually everyone was infected by this nonsense, and the consequence was an underestimation for which we would have to pay most bitterly.