Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-03
KuItur---Th Law Of the Hive

The theory of the German profess
sors, then, is that the German race
is the tittest to survive, and as such
has been selected by nature, and that
this being so, it's Kultur or form of
political organization must, by the
will of nature, be imposed, with the
same ruthIessness with which the
animal or the plant struggles for
supremacy, upon the rest of the
world. Such a struggle is to the
death, and just as physical nature
knows no mercy nor compromise, so
no mercy nor compromise must be
shown by the state. Mercy, COM
promise, these are evidences of
weakness, and as such, in the words
of Treitschke. the sin, in politics,
against the Holy Ghost.
1t is easy tC see from this how
the professor as well as, even more
than. the soldier, and the merchant
equally with the Junker, have been
able to accept and justify scraps of
paper, Lusitania sinkings, deporta-
tions, and even the most sanguinary
holocaust of German battalions on
the battlefield. War is brutal, but it
is natures way of conducting the
struggle. The fittest must survive,
and to achieve the right to survive
the hive must send its battalions, II
necessary. in dense formations up
10 the muzzle of the machine guns
in the trenches.
Germans the Chosen People
If there is this mercilessness for
the German variety of the species
destined to prevail for the purpose
of saving the species by impressing
Kultur on the other varieties, how
eh MI
be shown to those varieties. 1t is ma
ture's method of selection, and really
needs no defense from men. 1t Is
the law of the hive, and because Of
this it is futile and unjust to blame
the Queen Bee.
That promised land of the new
dispensation. then, is to be Mittel-
Europa. and the chosen people the
German inhabitants thereof. The
pure Germans would not be sutfi-
cient to impose Kultur upon man.
kind, and therefore the first step is
TO bring the other hives in it's neigh
borhood under the influence of Ku!-
tur. Friedric Naumann. in his we'll
known book. "Mittel- Europa" eX-
plains how this is to be done. "All
the traditional separatism of these
lands" he writes, must be so. eff
faced in the stress of the great war
as to make the idea of union toll
erable."
There will, he admits, no doubt be
strong opposition to the new state
in Austria and Hungary, but the un-
ion, In spite of this, is inevitable.
In plain English, just as the Mo-
hammedan started out from Mecca to
impose the religion of the Prophet
on humanity with a scimitar, so the
German is TO start out from Pots
da to impose the religion of Kultur
on humanity with a machine gun.
Kultur a Religion in Itself
For be 1t remarked. Kultur is a
religion in itself. Herr Naumann
makes this plain enough. when
Bismarck's empire made its peace
with the Pope and the party of the
Center" he writes, "the Protestant
character of the Hohenzollern EN-
perors became an unofficial private
affair of those who. as wearers of
of the crown We're above creedS."
In other words, the state being
superior to the human sense of NOR
ality, being III sort, a religion in it.
self, the ruler of the state, though
he may continue in an unofficial way
to describe himself as Protestant
is placed above the creed.
In precisely the same way there is
no reasoning with the hive. Given
such premises. there is only one ar
gument which has a chance of be-
ing listened TO in reply. 1t Is that
"Wayland Smith" can swing a heav-
ier hammer than Thor.
No man foresaw more clearly what
was coming, or understood more
thoroughly the inevitable result OF
the new philosophy, than that Won
derful Jew, Heine. Long ago. in the
past century, he warned France, in
particular, of what would happen
in the days when the gods of the
Stone Age were revived In the scien-
tific philosopher. In that day. lie
declared, Thor. with his colossal
,hammer. would leap across the