The Washington herald., 1915-04-05

weak and debauched must perish and
should he helped to perish
On this teaching Treitschke and
Bernhard (both now repudiated by
DIR. Dernberg) promulgated their war
doctrines And it should be remem-
bered that Nietzsche died insane.
Dreaming of worldwide peace.
Mr.. Barron writes in the concluding
chapter of his book:
There is no question. national or
International, no question OF the in
dividual or collection of individuals.
which cannot be settled by the laws
which belong in the human heart.
Such laws may be called spiritual or
natural, divine or human, they are
one and the same. Wars may not be
abolished from the human heart. but
they may be restrained from break
ing forth 10 the destruction of the
innocent and the Suiltless. There is
only one practical way to do this,
and that is to have nations under re-
Straint. just as nations have states
and cities under restraint. Then in
ternatiOual courts of justice may per-
form the same work national courts
now perform in respect to differences
between states"
In this same vein of thought NJ Leon
Bourgeois. who was Il member of the
Peace Hague conference of 1897. says:
Let the skeptiCs laugh. but We who la
bored ut The Hague as faithful servitors
Of Justice can bear testimony that we
heard in the Hall of knights the whs-
p"rings Of tn" Universal Conscience the
first slow. but regular and distinct beat
inCs Of the Heart of Humanity
Views of other NrwspaPcrs
The AuLacious War mas attracted
1T
that is well deserved. Below are ex-
tracts from the reviews of 4 number OF
prominent newspapers:
Boston Post: One of the most in
teresting contributions to war lit
crature that has thus far been
published is the new book by
.. W. Barron-"The .Audacious War"
Mr.. Barron has been called the dean Of
ilnan"" in america. and his explanation
Of the commercial. financial. and poIiti-
cal ASPECTS OF This war Will bc at once
recognized AS authoritative.
boston Globe: The foregoing can
not pretend to go into the de-
tail of Mr.. Barrons intelli-
gent explanation of the commercial
causes of war. but aims onlY to pre-
sent point here and there by way of
outlining in argument which NAV be
helpful in clearing up some of the con
fusion which has cIouded the issues
between the warning nations and actu-
ally at times puzzled the lighting men to
say why they are lighting. The inter
esting and encouraging part is that this
financial critic, who sees deeper into the
origins of war than those who traced
II To military cliques ana governmental
systems (which are only indirectly the
causes. should have pitched on the same
remedy as that urged by those less dis
"c.uing. but equally earnest CritiCs-the
need Of an international court OF jus
tice with Il world police to enforce its
DEGREES.
buffalo Commercial: Written by p
newspaper man trained to look after
things not alone from the viewpoint
of the reporter of events, but from
that. as WELL of the financier the
book deserves careful reading by
hLsiness men. and any others who wish
to know something of the great con-
tIct as viewed from an angle that
has been very generally overlooked.
The Churchman's: Few writer's pro-
duciuG at this time can command the
style in English. clarity of express
sion. and the ability for accuracy
possessed by the author of The
Audacious War" Beside this Mr.
Barron has memory best expressed
by the hard-worked word phenom-
email. In addition to the accuracy of
the statements contained in the book
the almost encyclopedia gathering
OF facts. many of them new to read
ers on this side of the water, the
book is touched with inagination-I
not the imagination which makes
fancy of facts, hut the imagination
which Pasteur so well defined as the
imagination sci"ntiiiquc"