The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-27

not, he thinks, because Of Servia or
Belgium, but because of long pre-
ceding conflict in the domain of
thought and aspiration. German
thought and aspiration have been
created by Nietzsche and Trietschke
and Won Bernhard, and under that
tuition Germany has asked herself
wherein she has been barred from the
path of empire and by whom. And
the answer has been invariably Eng
land.
This accounts for the intense hat
red of the English by the Germans.
1t also accounts for the belief in Ger
many that England is moribund, de-
generated-an Empire crumbling to
pieces-needing only to be picked by a
Krupp gun to bleed to death. A SIM
liar delusion had possession of the
more extreme people of the south in
1861, with respect to "the Yankees"
These soon found out their mistake.
The Germans are now finding out
their mistake. In the one instance as
the other, the penalty realized will be
the same, complete discontinue and
defeat.
Professor Cramb holds that there
are two forces warning throughout
the world for the allegiance of the hui
man mind The two forces are Christ
and Napoleon. The following is both
striking and suggestive:
I'm Europe, I say, this conflict be-
tween Christ and Napoleon for the
mastery over the minds of men is the
most significant spiritual phenome-
non of the twentieth century. You
meet with it in England and in Amer
lea, as in Austria and Spain. You
meet with it even in Italy. In Russia,
Tolstoy's furious attacks are a proof
of its increasing sway. The new spir-
it in France is its unacknowledged
derivative. But it is in Germany
alone that as yet Napoleonism has ac-
CURED something of the clearness and
self-consistency of formulated creed,
above all in Berlin and in the cities
and towns that come most within the
influence of Berlin. They have not
forgotten 1906 and the years of hid
eous humiliation which followed; they
have not forgotten the German con-
scripts who were compelled to fight
under the banners of their conquer
or; they have not forgotten the 297,-
900 men of German blood, who, I'M
der the Corsican's leadership, had, in
1912, to march against Russia; nor
have they forgotten 1913, and the
tremulous, awful hour when the des-
TIMES of Europe and, so to speak, of
the world, hung in the balance at
Dresden, at Kulum, at Katzbach and
at Leipzig. But, whilst abjuring the
tyrant of Germany and the oppressor
of Europe, they have gradually ac-
quired a profound and ever profound
er reverence for the creed and the re-
ligion toward which that great and
solitary spirit, perhaps the loneliest
among the children Of men, still strug-
gled amid the tumults and desola-
lions, the triumphs and the glories,
the victory and the disaster of his
tragic and brief career-a world-trag-
edy, his, at once the Man of Destiny
and the Antagonist of Destiny"
1t will be borne in mind that these
lectures were delivered quite year
before the war began; that their au-
thor is now dead; whence a certain
impressiveness is given these, his con-
Guiding remarks:
"And if the dire event of a war with
Germany-if it be a dire event
should ever occur, there shall be seen
upon this earth of ours conflict
which, beyond all others, will recall
that description of the great Greek
wars:
Heroes in battle with heroes,
And above them the Wrathful gods. /
And one can imagine the ancient, |
mighty deity of all the Teutonic kim
bred, throned above the clouds, look |
ing serenely down upon that conflict,
upon his favorite children, the En- ;
glish and the Germans, locked in a I
death struggle, smiling upon the hero |
ism of that struggle, the heroism of |
the children of Odin, the war god"
The Courier-Journal has asked, !
have we Christian religion? Are we /
Christians? Our answer to the call |
of suffering man proves us at least to !
be Humanitarians. We mourn with |
the stricken; we sorrow with the af-
we hasten to the rescue and !
relief of the needy. But which of us !
especially of us in the aggregate !:
yields to the spell and lives in the :
image of Him of Gallilee? Behold the !
flames of hell sweeping over three :
fourths of Europe! If this be Chris !
tianity, what is Paganism? Truly the |:
church needs, first of ALL to question,
to revise and to reform itself Or, !
has a single country cut loose from
the moorings of faith and the teach
ings of Christ, dragging the others