The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-17
IS MIGHT RIGHT
Japanese Philosophers Remark
able Discussion Of an Ethical
Question That Is Now Dividing
and Shaking the Western World.

FFOW ~ supNH "uVoftNe "
No one "a contemplate the whole
sale murder now going on in Europe
without having serious doubts as to
modern civilization. II the nations Of
Europe. which regard themselves the
highest examples Of human develop
ment. behave in such a manner, what
Is to be expected of the rest? All that
they have spent the centuries in on
structing they are now destroying;
their scientific achievements are being
used for the defamation Of humanity.
| The education and knowledge unto
which they have attained they are
utilizing to deceive and kill one an
other. Those who preached Christian
ity and love to nan are now given up
to hatred and slaughter. What can
be more anomalous than this conduct
of the nations Of Europe? How can
we explain this incapacity for right
living on the part OF the so-called
greatest? We doubt whether the war
Itself will solve this or any other prob
lem. Is II the strength and prowess
Of armies that decide the real victory.
or Is there another arbiter that IL more
final?
In the Republic Of Plato a sophist
rcmarks thai .tustico 10 n but
the nroat Of the strong" Roth
Treitscbke and rdi insis, tina,
war ia the creates, means NJ promoting
c,,,uro ond nou,er T. ,bis contention
| quite true?
1t cannot be denied that war is
sometimes necessary. our ideal is
III. - n,rrr,i Ta,.,o, ,raaaSas ,ho
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arco Nth cbr,s,,s saving. "posist not
.yiI" Met poonla roaara Tho assor-
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ord n, tho Eigh prios, ~suyyos,inp
,bat - vbat bo bad Gaia was not gond
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