The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-21

y nunureu times THESE sentences
from Die Zukunn ~ August 3. 1910.
after the translator had colorcd and
muti,atcd them according To his FASH
ion. have been displayed In the show
windows Of the enemy countries with
out their companions who supplement
and illuminate their meaning:
IAN OF us who are not nesting In
the thin glacier atmosphere " the wise
sage. Goethe. are biassed In our judy
ment Of. to us, detrimental acts Of
foreign nations.
Were we deceived. trickcd. he
trayed by them? We don't believe it.
We will not even %leisurely test the
proof. whether II is strong or weak.
Of rocklike flrmness. or crumbling.
Into the cradle with the business man.
ayers who allowed themselves to te
duped, who pretend not to know that
the ancient arch-status OF eternal ma
ture recurs when Ares puts on his
armor Of gold and commands his breed.
horror and fright, to harness the
horses to the chariot Of war.
Hair splitting legal arguments do
not Dear the spirit which Germania
to-day once again demands Of her
Children
Only malicious intention a darken
the meaning OF these my words: Vic
tory. not attempts at excuse. promises
us salvation: Germany's strength was
right in demanding a farther reaching
realm OF domination. II that strength
were overpowered. no invocation of
good right and pious past would help
the empire.
Could policy In the first week OF the
war speak otherwise, faced by three
giants: Did not conscience forbid
the Justification Ut the meaning of such
speech into the boasting habhle that
the right of other inhabitants of the
earth vas To German barbarism only
IA phantom whose hollowness the Long
Max" and BUSY Bertha would soon
In lovely harmony expose"
Conscience $50 answers Your SMILEY
forhidS nothing. That We have such
an Organ in our makeup is only
our imagination: so speaks Jeremy
Rentham. According To Balm. con-
science Is In the inner man what
without is termed government. And
Butler thinks conscience would rule
the world II its right were associated
with might. There again are two words
with which you would Ike 10 play
cricket: and from the heaven OF con-
ccptions there shines into the head OF
II bishop the realization that mightless
conscience Is worth little.
Might without right? The former is
the progenitor of the latter; In order
that the latter may mould and coin the
former. bring II quickly into circula-
ton and enforce recognition for IT,:
car grown up people quarrel over
that?
forego the cheap fun Of profusely
exploring the question as to what
morally clarified right. devoid Of all
might. bestowed upon your country
the domination over Ireland. India,
Egypt. the Sudan. the African dis
tricts. Canada. Australia. Gibraltar and
many another slice of the globe.
Might created it. Only SO ions as
might blows your imperial banner
does your masters right prevail and
morality contents itself with peeking
into the dominions there to measure
the civilization furthering value
achieved by the conqueror.
Duty. the necessity &c act or to de-
sist from acting In order that he may
perfect his happiness, or at least not
diminish II.
What we desire Is called good: what
deters us Is called bad. Gods right IL
disputed nowhere where He Is held
almighty
The all right il therefore the product
Of all might.