The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-25

last slight remnant OF your YOKE Inc
! arrogance or the clumsiness Of some
| beef witted Minister will ALLEVIATE cam
I ada or Australia exactly as the clumsi-
ness of the Graftons, the Norths, the
! Grenviles, between 1863 and i776 alien
atcd the New England States.
Then the German Cultur- Imperial
isten. not unaffected probably by the
{ study of Mommsen or Of Curtius, GER
tulnly strongly Influenced by the study
OF Dahn ana Nistzsche, arraigi the
i century and half OF our rule in india
Your dominion" they say, "has been
retrugrude and obsCurantist India is
not only the Italy OF Asia; II Is not
/ only the land Of romance, Of art and
beauty. II Is in religion carth's CEN
| trail shrine India Is religion. Yet
, what consciousness OF this have Eng
,ishmen ever exhibited? You came to
india with an opium pipe in one hand
and Bible IN the other. India, seek
( ing dreams. accepted with the passion
y ~ despair the opium: /, gave her
= dreams. Your Bible she rejected with
: measureless contempt and she awokc
4 from her opium sleep TO fasten her
eyes and her soul with new ardor, new
/ alteration on the great scriptures OF her
! race. Yet the officers Of your army
aud your civil administrators are in
capable of reading a page OF those
scriptures Instead Of selling the OPP
portunlty of n new and great religious
I experiment. you. the conquerors- bor
rnwers Of your own religion--have come
20 tho most original race Of this planet
ana asked them TO borrow from the
borrowers!
And as YOU have failed in India. 80
70 in IN
India Is the most sacred region on this
Garth. As yet YOU have succeeded only
in ,ulgarlzing It. The Mamelukcs spared
the majesty Of the Pyramids Napo-
! leon. turning from them, could make his
great appeal, Soldiers, forty centuries
look down upon your actions But
/ You crept into possession Of Egypt by
. the weakness OF France. like fox
. creeping into a f2rmstc8dinG."
\ different group ~ critics direct the
/ Indictment against various aspects ot
/ our civic and national life. against our
! less is the most provincial of all the
crceds born of the Reformation. Luther.
! Calvin, even Zwingli. can claim ad-
| herents In other countries than those
| In which the faith Of each was founded.
/ But AngliCanism--wher are the pros
eytcs from other nations who have
/ adopted that az their lie giving hope?
/ And ito annals since its institution are
as barren or az provincial as It's doc
! trine and It's ritual. What single name
| of European power in the eighteenth
or nineteenth centuries has il produced?
And at the present hour 1t has not a
Bishop whose name is known beyond
the boundaries Of his own diocese, or a
single theo,ogian who has any claim
to the attention Of mankind except such
as IL derived from his study OF the Ger
man masters In his own science. And
even in the sphere OF theological criti-
cism where Is the English Reuss or
Renan. where is the English Friedrich
strauss?
The criticism of our universities. rills
from the German Parnassus, is so old
and sti.l so well justified that 1t would
be tedious To repeat 1t. new touch
Is contributed by Dr Karl Botticher,
who tells us in effect: you govern
millions who read their sacred books
in the Sanscr.t and Arabic characters
but the fairest specimens OF those types
are still east in German fonts. Ger
man taught you the meaning of the
religion of that province which you re-
gard as the brightest Jewel in the Eng
fish crown. and 10 German scholarship
morals, the administration Of our laws,
our universities, and even against that
palladium, that happy via media, the
Anglican Church. II Is affirmed with
regard to the national religion Of Eng
, land that that religion which we are
proud OF naming Catholic" neverthe-
you owe the initiatory impulse To study
each of the four great world religions
of your re-NIohammedanism 20
roastrtanism, Buddhism ana Brahmin-
ism" or again, II Is pointed out that
, Macaulay, our greatest national his
, torian. makes mistakes in philosophy
, which no German Fuchs would commit
, And finally, turning to English So
Cciety, the indictment centres upon that
2 movement toward woman suffrage
. which has characterized English life
during the last two years. Does not
| the suffragette. loud voiced, coarse
minded, stealing about like thief with
hammer up her sleeve, represent Eng
: lish women to the civilized world?" To
this carlcature they oppose the picture
of the German woman, her virtues.
her dignity and her simplicity. They
cite the magnificent answer OF the
Prussian mother in the war OF liberia
ton OF 1913: who is the noblest
. woman" "She who has given most sons
to die for the Fatherland." Or they
, quote Queen Luise: THE childrens
world, that Is world enough for me-"
: Yet she was capable OF approaching
Goethe German women too, they as
9 sert, have gone to war; but German
= women make war not against flower
beds or golf links. insensate pillar
boxes or shop windows, but like
. soldiers. against soldiers.
A The significance OF this indictment is
its moral scorn. And the inference
;, drawn from It may be stated thus: How
. Is the persistence OF a great unwarllkt
n Power sprawling Fafnir- wise across the