The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-27
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NptCIUt OFTfSDONTtW 10 ~ SUN
PARIS. May 2s.--Of the many inter-
esting interpretations as to the causes
of the great wal in Europe possibly
zone liz more interesting than that OF
Prof. Pierre Marcellin Boule, one OF the
most famous psychologists of the
world. He holds the chair of paleon-
tology In the National Academy OF
Natural History and has won innumer-
able honors. This noted French profess
sor dug from the depths in wyoming
a skeleton of the huge diplodocus, the
reptile that persisted in other ages be-
cause OF the madness due to gigantism
that overleaped it's environment.
Seven years ago Andrew Carnegie had
a cast made Of the lightweight foot
diplodocus in the Pittsburg museum, the
Monster discovered in Sheep Creek, AL
bany county, Wyoming, and sent this
cast to Prof. Boule. 1t furnished a text
for an explanation OF an interesting
phenomenon OF the war.
Prof. Boule has evolved a theory that
has set learned Europe talking. He de-
clares tbs the whole German people is
sick, that 1t went to war because of
this sickness, a sickness comparable to
that which caused the disappearance of
the overefhcient, giant reptile.
Charles de la Ronciere, the famous
historian OF the French navy, who writes
frequently on the work of the French
In America, told me how deeply IN
terested was the scientific world In Prof.
Boules explanation of the German men
tally. He aid everybody felt the Ger
mana xrara mad hMt ~ far nOhDdy had
been able to advance a proper explana-
ton of this phenomenon.
Causes Of the War.
I found Prof. Boule at his laboratory
table. and asked him to expound his
theory of what the French call the
Juror Teutonicus, the German madness.
a square built. heavy set athletic man
of frank, determined mien, with moth
ing of the i know more than vol DO
air which characterizes SO many pro-
~fessors, he might easily have passed Tor
an Englishman of business.
Yes he said theoretically. 1t Is
quite true that l seriously maintain the
Germans are suffering with the same
disease that removed from the earth
in past ages certain gigantic species. l
consider the M not a people,, but
a conglomeration of little races that are
all sick from the same madness. They
have all had the same specialized SORT
of education. or rather miseducation.
and therefore all their minds arc poi
soned alike. OF course the Kaiser is
mad, but he is not the only madman
among them.
I'm the beginning l blamed the Kaiser
alone. Later / blamed the Pope and l
blamed your President Wilson. the one
for not speaking as from God, the other
as the representative of a neutral. civ
ilized people-both for not admonishing
the Germans against acts OF barbarism.
And as much as l blamed these, / APP
plauded your Col. Roosevelt for de-
nouncing these hideous acts. These were
the only persons in the world who could
have spoken. and but one of them did
his duty TO humanity.
Then n day while walking out
there in the gallery OF the musuem
where the d%iplodocus is mounted, II
came to me that the were
merely mad animals. that no word on
earth could have checked them, that
they mad had a retrogression. a rerer-
sion OF type, just as this animal had in
its own time. II became overspecialized.
obsessed with its W power. its normal
functions had to pay for its special
ones and in the end it disappeared from
the face of the earth.
Not New In Animal or Human
History.
This explanation Of a phenomenon
which | am applying to the Germans Is
not new in history. Edward Quinet in
his work Creation has pointed out
numerous examples of the same truth.
The old Romans had a saying: QUEEN
deus vult perdere. prius deinentat TOO
much power, madness for a~gsrandize-
ment. destroyed the Greeks. as II later
destroyed the Romans, as 1t is to-day
destroying the Germans.
I'm rejecting or these facts realized
that this war had carried US back 10 the
time OF the thieving. women numbering
Pharaohs, that 1t was for the Germans
a colossal looting enterprise.
AT first these acts were laid at the
door of the Prussian imperial and milf
tary system. But there are many men
in Germany of cultivated tastes, artists,
savants, writers, men of thought and OF
science, certainly enough good people to
understand and revolt at this kind OF
warfare. Unhappily, scarcely a voice
among them has been raised against
the war of piracy and of assassination
of the innocent, the burning or libraries,
the Smelling of churches. On the con-
trary we have the phenomenon OF these
men preaching the doctrine that war and
'Kultur' are one. Therefore We must
blame the whole people.
Il nave visited the United States and
therefore l am acquainted with your