The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-27
SAYS DIPLODOCUS DIED
OF TEUTON GIGANTISM
Prof. Boule, French Savant, Declares Kaiser Is a Mad
Animal" and All His People Went to War Be-
cause Of a National Disease.

l'f INV NOul Ioe6hN "
seem totally occupied in raising colossal
structures like the Germans, in doing
business at any cost. this is but a sur
face view. You are really lovers of
truth, Of the ideal. and I feel that you
are with us at heart in this war. But 1t
took the sinking OF the Lusitania to
prove to you how mad the Germans
are.
ORGANIZATION Germ ~ Madness.
But I would like to show that this
immoral spectacle presented by German
madness. %repugnant as 1t IT,. is really
not so discouraging in the eyes of the
naturalist as 1t would at first seem, for
1t carries with it hope for the final
triumph OF liberty and right.
This phenomenon Of repression thus
expressed in the German race belongs
as much to the domain OF natural as Of
human history. II Is easy to account
for 1t by the laws of biology. The
changes by which groups of beings be-
come different from their n~eighbors
must not pass a certain Init: must
not unsettle the general equilibrium
essential to the vitality and endurance
OF the whole organism.
ut must he recognized that the evo-
luton which generated the famous
'Kultur' has produced powerful results
and fairly earned great prestige. But
mark. its principal characteristic Is
that 1t has always let itself be dom
mated by a regard for Organization
of which Prof. OSWALD Is so proud
that he would like to make other coun-
tries profit by II, ever through force.
But II Is zone the less certain that
we must here remark an abnormal
growth of the power OF the German In
tellect, employed almost exclusively to
forge instruments OF domination and OF
oppression as regards other peoples,
that this abnormal growth has been ac-
companied by a corresponding atrophy,
or whitening Of the moro natural forms
OF the intellect. The exaggeration Of
the practical n the useful has re-
suited In the almost total humiliation Of
other and more noble habits OF the mind.
The good has been sacrificed for the
practical. and II Is only the disinterested
cultivation Of science that leads to
truth, and this leads TO a strong con-
ception Of right, this to a love of justice,
TO the feeling OF moral beauty. to all
that responds to our aspirations toward
the ideal.
or the Germans presents itself under
two aspects: First, the progressive. so
FAR as concerns things material: sec
ond, retrogressive, so far as concerns
things moral and spiritual. This last
aspect corresponds to a reversion toward
the savagery of primitive peoples.
The Gigantic sickness.
The Germanic evolution has failed
because OF lack of proportion. Biology
teaches us hat in making a new use
OF old faculties or organisms. these lat
ter are placed in a condition of less re-
sistance. a general weakness Of the
whole body follows and particularly
leaves without defence to the destructive
elements ever alive In nature these or
sanisms put to new uses. So here must
be seen the signs which warn of death.
Nothing is truer in nature than that
gigantism Is a real disease, affecting
in their life sources no only individua,.
but races and species Of the highest
order.
Is Its gigantic sy stem Of organi-
zation. the German people have been
led 10 the love OF the .Kolossal,' to the
biggest ship. the biggest gun, the big
gest man. the biggest army, and rough
this to the megalomania which is but
another form OF gigantism. and this
m~egalomania blinded this people even 10
obliterating every sign OF common sense
and drew II on to the pursuit of the
chimera Of world empire.
Life is filled with examples OF rapid
disappearance of beings fallen victim TO
their gigantism, or OF their
ton OF the normal functions in some
one direction.
When they seem to have reached
the ummit of their physical power they
succumb because of lack of equilibrium
In organs or faculties so that they are
unable TO adapt themselves to new cir
Cumstances.
such were the armored fish of early
ages. such the enormous amphibians
OF later ages, such. yet later, were the
gigantic, reptiles of which this diplo-
docus so kindly sent by Mr.. Carnegie is
the most popular example such were
In the tertiary age the mastodons, the
dinotherium, the kings OF the mammals.
THE German evolution has been
worked out rather in the sense of that
which kills than that which gives life.
The 'Kultur' resulting must perish. vic
tim OF this intensive organization. of
the gigantism OF its material force. OF
the weakening Of its moral sense"
rs 1t their madness or the German
people which must disappear? do YOU
think there is any cure for them" I
suggested.
Yes, the German people can and will
he cured. II Is their 'kultur' which must
co. answered Prof. Boule. The peo-
pie must be politically redivided into
the little. natural groups of half a cen
fury ago. Then, they must be reedu-
Gated. This il the only hope for them
or for civilization"