Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-01-16

bTHE war in Europe has allied the world
with horror. There are no wars in the
past that can be compared with t. 1t
surpasses by far the greatest calamities that
ever have befallen mankind. Yet with all that
there Is another side to the question. There
is cosmic organism besides the one of the in
dividual Nature cares nothing for the Joys
and sorrows of the Individual. The reason OF
nature has no relation to that OF the man. The
war with all It's brutalities must be looked
upon as manifestation OF natural forces-a
cyclone of nature.
Il was Just as unavoidable as an earthquake.
There was cosnic reason for It. Every
great mind foresaw II. II was necessary to
what we call evolution.
Nations and countries, like individuals, have
their lives and tragedies. Atlantis was a great
continent, inhabited by q powerful and civil
lized nation when the rest OF the world was
merged in barbarism. Atlantis colonized
Egypt and Central America. When at the
zenith OF their power the Atlanteans became
involved In war such as has befallen Europe
the whole continent was submerged and sank
in the sea. All great calamities OF nature fol-
low q certain kind OF war. When a social
organism is poisoned by q wrong doctrine of
life, the sooner It dies the better. Like the
civilization of the Auanteans, this OF the Eu.
ropeans Is decadent and doomed. The vitality
Of every living body depends upon Its spiritual
not It's physical constitution.
AS much as we may pity the individual who
suffers In such cosmic calamities, still we
buOulu % Gnu Ol INC lctupobb that Ciodtlb ma
ture from human rubbish ana decadence. The
oosmic will has no mercy upon any individual,
because in going against nature the In.
dlvidual ignored the cosmic will. The Euro
pean war 10 gigantic purging process OF evo-
luton.
The present European war was unavoidable,
because the social soul OF Europe was sick.
Nothing but destruction could end such a sick
ness. The European disease was best re-
lected in the art and literature that preceded.
the war. With every year the paintings grew
more abnormal and ugly. The music OF the
Germans, French and English was all discords
and unpleasing noise.
The culture" OF Europe came to a climax
OF artIhcialitles. The government OF Europe
became materialistic and militaristic.
On the one hand the Christian church, on
the other the naked industrialism undermined
the old Culture. The logic that invented the
printing press and steam engine could not be
reconciled with legendary religion. The
Christian church that had been OF such In
huence during the feudal period of social life.
lost its grip when industrial civilization was
created. Money In the one hand--the Bible in
the other-this was the picture OF a typical
Kulturtraeger of Europe The fatal paradox
was to profess belief in the doctrines OF
Christianity end to make money at the same
time in the way most Of that money was made.
The contradiction Of the two doctrines can be
considered as the logical cause OF the material
istic education, the logical cause Ut the lack OF
spiritual ideals.
Before fool dies he goes crazy. Europe
went crazy before the war. Rome went crazy
before her fall. The rubbish OF materlallstic
civilization grew so poisonous that Il needed