It is known as Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is an American scholarly, political, and philosophical development of the mid-nineteenth century revolved around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Transcendentalism is a philosophical development that created in the late 1830s in the eastern United States. It emerged as a response to or challenge the general condition of intellectualism and the deep sense of being at the time.
One of the major things that led to the collapse of the German army/navy and their war effort was internal fighting among the Germans themselves regarding tactics.