The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-06-18
GERMAN PAGANISM

TITS NOT EASY to understand German ethics the material of
morals included in their term Kuur without reference
the ncucated in the ancient worshps Woden ike Oo
a tough god who prevailed with the hammer
There was group of these gods peculiar to the neghbor
hood of Germany They Names but the gen
characteristics which derived from scrutiny OF he
exceedingly weather prevailing in those parts
The German ethc has been colored by their position
as the central part the European battle ground where the
notion could only be maintained by battle was
early received by them and tenaciously retained
Said the German Treschke, in "Poitics,
that We q5g gs as5pss P both n mp GH
The philosopher Friedrich Nezsche, in Also Sprach Aara
nustra"
SHAH love peace as means o new f 5nf on P
do not advise you compromise
g g0 1 RS aTan war tell you that
Tretschke again.
further of these matters sgs for
to that shall return again. terrible
This is the speech savage 1t is the morality of
pagan gods.
It dates to the time when the European man having deve-
oned slight control over the nature and little art Of
making the productive fought mady for foothod on the
earth
What influence have utterances such these upon the
German Thousands of Germans perhaps scarcely
know the Of the philosophers or knowing hen CAe u
dersand the teachings leaders know and the principles
of the teachings embodied into the doctrines of the
pulpit
German sermons closely scrutinzed often to be a
complex of Modernism inermingled with Christian doctrine
The economics the English and American industry are
founded upon the Adam Smith, although the people
know little perhaps, of Adam Smith or his views.
The pagan gods cruel. Wooden and Odin and Thor
hunderer sayers ravishers They the elements
unsparng ptiless turbulent, resistless.
A. Kuhn Of Charottenburg, "Die warren Ursa
chen de Kreigs"
mountains of oceans of
Of the oonqueror is
Here Wooden speaking from the pen Of Pastor Baumgar-
ten, in "Deutsche Reden in Schwerer Ze,"
are oosmsnt | on h @ G Device nnT an7
And again the pen of Wilhelm Kah rector of
the University of Berlin:
ed sitting % GnF 3oa HS so are 2 ss
1g noTe cannot tell yehae wills further deSou will be passed
primitive child of undeveloped imagination
The ego stronger in him, than it is in modern His
gods children like children who pull the wings from flies
to them suffer.
One of the greatest of German scientists Haeckel of
Jens Here is the primitive ego the utterly savage SELF speak
ing from the lips of highly trained who yet in spirit
pagan.
One single highly cultivated German warrior Of those who are
hundreds of the children
Haecke frankly pagan He denied the existence of
God and devoted his life to attempt to prove that is
result of circumstance combination of fortuousy
sembed, in aworld which is machine and nothing
is the German ego, retained from savage ancestry, that is
the cauatve factor behind the modern German theory of
and conquest.
To the child the world nothing except as exists
for him. The Germanr with this primitive vew speak ankly
of world conquest of the segregation of all property of
conquered and Of transporting the peoples
the Romance Of the American continent to Africa
Front his idea to the idea of a general humiliation of
conquered people is STEP step which German leaders
have already taken in theory and to degree fact
It cannot be said that Christianity has not had
German ideals Wooden frankly would have
proposition for the humiliation enemies But German
thought has officially progressed until it his the concept thai
such ideal ought not to be frankly stated for probably
of its effect upon mankind
In due the Times will present some of the
contrasting views of American and British thinkers its
readers have fuller understanding presidents
meaning when he that this for preservation
of democracy.
One might with truth go further and say that this is wal
to whether Christ or Wooden shall be victorious
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