Evening star., 1915-07-04

clans as Abel or Hermett: no physiolo-
gist who may compare with Claude
Bernard: no physician to compare with
Ampere: Branly is the equal of Roent-
gen: Morisan is as great as Ostwald:
Koch and Erlich are followers OF Pas
teur.
German seminaries teach philosophic
studies, and historians and literary
men, engineers. electricians. mechani-
clans and chemists graduated from
these schools are excellent technolo-
gists capable of rendering service to
the industrials who employ them, but
they cannot be classed as savants.
The heroic period OF German philoso-
ply commenced with Leibnitz, con-
tinued with Kant. Fichte, Schelling.
Hegell. and closed with Schopenhausr
and Nietzsche.
n. Fonsegrive, while expressing the
belief in the diminution Of German
philosophy. and citing
Development the opinion of all who
~ M,.;, attended the recent phil
osophic congress in that
sense, declares that Germany at least
has had great musicians, and among
these Bach. Beethoven. Mozart and
Wagner. Now Germany has only
Strauss. whose ability is recognised in
cites the nerves of his auditors more
than tending to elevate to the serene
and pathetic regions where scars the
music of Beethoven or a Bach. There
is decadence now. Wagner's music
| carries you Off without end or satisfac-
ion; Its sonorous complexity attract
ing you and dtstracting Won until won
are lost as in a profound forest sineu-
iarly seductive. Wagner excites. but
does NOT exalt, as. for example, Bee.
thoven and the French Cesar Franck."
Germanic militarism. says NJ Fonse-
grlVe, Is nothing less than Prussian
Gorporaiism created by King Frederick
wliilam L. a mechanism whose discipline
tends to make a man a simple war ma
cnine. The savant of whatever school
must be a specialist Physician or
chemist. he must discover some new fact:
.iaiuralst' I, he should study in utmost de-
tall some certain moss or worm philoio-
glst' reconstruct test, establish the exg Il
date of a fact. Analysis, then. is the
only method that gives resu.ts
analysis supposes philosophy. Analy-
sis decomposes. synthesis recomposee-
brings together materials detailed bv
analysis.
In history "kultur' is purely critical.
ana ..Si. concludes by doubts or negations.
grive, Germany has had no histor ran."
German intellectuals declare that mill
tarlsm is the safeguard of their "kultur."
ne army. inc.eed, is the product OF their
"kultur': its discipline is based on the
mechanism of the pedagoeic traininS.
ana II this Is brutal the pedaRaRue has
exacted it. That brutality Is. there
fore, scientific; scientific also the ter
ror instituted whenever the army
moves The state is force. The state
Is a mechanism of which the army is
the symbol and the principal part. All
individual rights are effaced in the
presence OF the rights of the state.
,.,li.nl ticlsm ism; does not exist. To renounce
militarism would mean the suicide of
Germany" declares NJ. Fonsegrive.
universal civilization is the fruit Of
Whatever is the best in the human race;
the Hellenic sense elaborated It; the
Roman power codified it; Christianity
consecrated it. Neither science nor art
was born in Germany. Leibnitz Schil-
ler. Goethe and their emulators are i'm
pregnated with Latin civilization. Thus.
accoraing to M Fonsegrive. there are
two Germanys-that of Leibnitx, SchiI-
Ter and Goethe, which is that also Of
Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, and mod
crate Germany, and military and Prua-
slanfzed Germany.
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According to NJ Fonsegrive, no one
will oppose the Germanic race in the
work of producing
scientific flowers in the field Of
SCleuce. Ine9e mowers,
however. Germany pro-
duced before she was Prussianized. and
since then she does not produce now-
ers. To destroy Germany's force is not
to destroy German science, the art OF
poetry, philosophy or German music. It
would, on the contrary, give her free
air, where she could breathe freely and
prosper. Civilization could be grandly
and completely human without borrow
ing a single thing from Germany. II
the German genius desires to live. II
will be necessary that Germany re-
nounce the idea of absorbing and an
nulling other nations.
There is no evidence, beside the fu-
tile appeal for peace from the German
socialist heretofore cited, that Germany
contemplates renouncing militarf3m. or
is inclined to peace. A new book.
"Haendler und Helden" Graders and
Heroes), by Werner Sombart. professor
of political economy, dedicated to our
young heroes facing the foe, gives.
perhaps, a more faithful portrait OF
things in Germany than the Vorwaertz:
The Introductory chapter. & headed
Der Glaubenskrieg (The War or
Faith). recites that all wars have been
and will be wars of faith: that in this
respect there is no difference between
the religious conflicts OF the middle
ages ana modern wars, WHICH dTlsc Jul
of economic interests or ambition for
power.
Prof Somhart calls the war holy
war for Germany The real central
war is being waged between western
European civilizat ton. the ideals of 1889.
and German military culture (kultur),
which the enemy denouncas as Ger
man barbarism.' The struggle Is be-
tween the shopkeeper and the hero.
between the mercenary and the heroic
spirit The two peoples which most
definitely represent these conflicting
spirits are the British and the Germans.
Only as an Anglo-German war does the
world war of 1914 attain its deep his
toric significance.
Prof Sombart writes from the politi-
cal-economic side, but there Is an
other-the military side. The British
are rapidly developing a large army.
while on the other hand there exist
on the eastern flank the formidable
armies of Russia. on the western ana
southern flank the armies of France,
Belgium and Italy. These indlsputaoly
constitute a formidable curvilinear, out
Prof Sombart apparently takes no note
of the fact, so absorbed is he by the
economical situation. Nevertheless,
the neutral correspondent OF the
London Times writes:
Germany is a huge centrifugal ma
chine discharging its energies at the
periphery England. France, Belgium.
Seryia. italy and Russia). The ma
chine will give out when the central
store of energy is exhausted"
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