Evening journal., 1918-05-09
CHAPTER III

CHAPTER ILL.,
Ltterances Of Philosophers, Historians
and Men of Science
4. Before the Outbreak Of the World
War.
Prevalent Attitude Of German Profes.
sors Towards the Peace Movement.
The German university professors
harc always been the most enthusiastic
defenders Of the military system, You
hear nowhere DO Germany more belit-
Ting of the peace and disarmament
movements Than among the university
professors
Hugo Muensierbera. ~The War and
America 1914. p 100.
Peace Means 10 War.
fe shall love peace as means 70
new wafs-and the short peace more
than The long
fe say i Is the good cause which hall
lowetn even war? say unto you: 4
IS me good war which hali0weth every
cause War 8nd courage have done more
greet things than charity.
BE- not conslderate Or thy
nelgdDor What thou d0est can
no one % 70 thee again. 10. there h
no reruifal
Thou shalt not rob Thou shalt not
siar such precepis were once called
holy. u there not even In an
iife r0bbine end Staying and for such
precepis % be called holy. was not
truth itself thereby slaing
This new table. o my brethren, put
up over YOU Become hard.
Nleizscne. Thus spake Zsrathustra.
translated BY Thomas Common. Mac
milan fieiij, pp. u 2i2 245. 2iG, 262.
German and French Traits.
\ q wise for a people 60 pose, and
let Itself be regarded as profound.
clumsy, good-natured. honest and fool
ien i might even be profound 10 do
90 Finally, we should do honor to
OUT name we arc not called the
nothing.
The European noblesse- OF sentiment
taste and manners, taking the word In
every high sense-is lhe work and in-
ventlon of France.
Even az present France Is stlli the seat
OF The most intellectual and refined cul-
ture Of Europe, II is stlll tile high
school OF taste.
Nielzsche, Beyond Good and EVIL"
translated by Helen zimmern, Maomll-
Ian 1919. pp 200. 2i3.
even feel 1t my duty to tell the Ger
mans, FOR once IN a way, all that they
have on their conscience. Every great
crime against culture for the last four
centuries lies on their conscience
And always for the same reason, al.
ways owing TO their bottomlcss cow
ardice IN The face Of reality, which Is
also cowardlce IN the face OF truth: al
ways owing 10 the love OF falsehood
which has become almost instructive In
them
German intellect is my foul air
breathe with difficulty In The nelghbor-
hood Of this psychological uncleanll-
ness that has now become instructive
Ian hncleanliness which 10 every word
and expression betrays a German. They
have never undergone seventeenth
ceniury Of hard self-examnatlon as the
French h0ve-a la Bochef0ucsuld a
pescartes, are q thousand times more
upright than the very frst among Ger
mans-tho latter have not yet had any
Psychologists. But psychology Is almost |
the standard Of measurement for the |
cleanliness or unceanliness OF race |
For II a man is not even 1
clean, how can he be deep? That which 4
Is called deep" IN Germany Is precisely /
tUls instructive uncleanlness toward |
ones self, OF which have Just spoken
people refuse 10 be clear In regard TO
their own natures.
Nietzsche. "Ecce Homo" translated by 4
A. NJ Ludovlei, Macmillan ti9ii), pp. \
i2i, i2T.
The Philosophy OF War.
We're disputes between states TO be
determined by a court and by compul.
sion exercised by superior power all
the states subjected 10 such a court
would cease TO be states. The suppress
sion OF war would imply the suppress
sion Of 8ll states and the remoldlng OF
civilized humanity into a single pollti-
cal system. Separate states are
therefore by nature IN state OF war
with each other Conflict must be re-
Garded as the essence OF their relations
and as The rule, friendship as accidental
and exceptional
in conflicts between individuals. as
IA conflicts between states
80 long as men are endowed with free
will, compulsion alone can secure JUS
&lee. II the adyersarys power
1f resistance Is exhausted. II actual