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piled to human life, races and nations
the theory which scientific men
thought they could prove In the AMI
NAL kingdom. where, they argue. the
beast or bird which lives Is the iittest
to live: the weak die. Among man
kind, however, this rule does not
apply; II It did. the only persons now
surviving would be prize fighters. But
muscle Ii not the only test among
men; there II the Intellectual test.
and the moral test which are Inn
mensely more important than tho
physical. No doubt. I'm NapoleOn'9
army there were 100000 men physL
eally stronger than he. and yet he
possessed q power by watch he could
control and lead the 100000. The
Germans. however, laid their claims
to being SuDermen, mot merely on the
physical superiority o. their soldiers
but also on the superior mental QuaH
itiea OF their imtel1ectRal leaders.
They claimed 10 be 10 best man OF
science, for instance, and they pre-
tended that the fAet that Germans
had had great poez3 and musiciaAs
and philosophers IVES 6 further proof
that Germans were GupoRmen. I'm
fact, however, an the great German
poets-from 00ethe and Schiller to
Helne; al tie great German muDi-
ciAns-from Bach and Beethoven
TO Wagner: and all the great Ger
man philOsoph Leibnitx and
Kant to Hagel and Gchopeuhauer,
lived and worked before the mad
dream Of German wOrid-dominion
had been suggested, and Wagner.
the only one Of them who lived after
the rise Of Prussia, detosted Prussia
and the Prussians and lost no oppors
tunity to ridicule or to denounce
them.
Germans Follow
In science itself the Germans have
been and are extraordinarily patient
investigators and very nfmble ap-
pliers OF other mems Inventions and
discoveries. Run over the List Of
the truly great modern scientists.
Who are the men who have an
nounced fundamental principles?
Darwin, who gave the keynote Of
modern thought and modern science,
was an Englishman; Louis Pasteur.
who showed the true method Of biol
ogy. was Frenchman; Michael
Farraday, an Englishman, was the
master Of al students Of electricity,
and Joseph Lister, another English
man, led the way Ia antisepticB.
Morton, an American, first demon
strated the usefulness Of ether % an
anaesthetic, and Sir James Simpson.
. Scot, popuiarized the use Of chic
reform. Three Englishmen, one
Scot, one American, one Frenchman
and NO German! When we come to
the most important inventors, the
sppIieRs Of science to invention,
what do We ind? Fulton, an Amer
lean, invented the steamboat; Ste
venson, an EngliBhman. the railroad
locomotive; Morse. an American.
the telegraph; Marconi, an Italian
with an Irish mother, wireless teleg-
raphy: Bell, an American, the tele-I
phone. And in the field of war IT.
self, to which the Germans have de-
voted more time and attention than
have all the other nations, the lead
ers have not been German. Holland,
an American. put the first submar-
inc into the water and devised the
first submarine torpedo; two Amer
lean brothers. the Wrights, set ny
ing the first practical airplanes;
Maxim, another American, invented
the machine gun; Bessemer, an Eng
lishmai, discovered the process for
making steel, without which Krupp|
guns would not have existed. One
hundred and forty years ago. Mont
golfer, a Frenchman, invented the
balloon, of which the Zeppelin is a
modern derivative. Even trench
warfare was not German discov-
cry.
Not Supermem
Unless the definition Of q Super
man be that he is creature who
copies ordinary meas inventions
and the basic formulas of science,
the German has NO right to the title.
But, you may ask, does not his supe-
rfority in war make him a Super
man? reply, no! II musical
people, after devoting sixty or eighty
years to music, succeeded in
creating o very good orchestra.
should you think it remarkable that
that orchestra could outplay any
group of musicians hastily got to-
gether In o country which was not
only non-musical but had been de-
voting its energy In altogether diff
ferent fields? Should you expect
even the Germans, II they were sud-
denly transplanted to our great West
and forced to compete in the agri-
culture on a grand scale, which the
Americans have developed there and
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