It was fundamentally wrong, when discussing the subject of war guilt, to suggest that Germany could not be counted as alone responsible for the outbreak of that catastrophe ; the proper thing would have been to lay the burden of it without cease upon the enemy, even if this did not correspond with the true course of events, as was nevertheless the actual fact.
The masses are in no position to distinguish where foreign illegality begins and our own ends.
An immense majority of the people are so feminine in nature and point of view, that their thoughts and actions are governed more by feeling and sentiment than by reasoned consideration.
This sentiment is, however, not complicated, but very simple and consistent. It does not differentiate much, but it is either positive or negative, love or hate, truth or lies, never half one and half the other, and so on.
This was realized by the British propaganda with very real genius. In England there were