The Nevada County picayune., 1918-04-04

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 assyc .s.s,' .o uend-yieldsns un,
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 slsey ', could have their way
 s- ,.'c caused the war? When
 TsrId ,e,I hope for it's ena,ns'
 s. .nd hundreds of other Kin .,ions have been answered
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 .srsnt ss,el ways. For the most
 s,svers are based upon su.
 ..d ,.I very partial aspects or z ~ and are, necessarily only (..,.ctory and partly true,
 ~o,'ld ,., really understand the |,s of the world war we must sons certain musty manu-
 ', lie mouldering in the H.
 cnon universities. We
 what the masters of the
 philosophy have written. We h what the Teutonic mind
 -sught-what it has been
 In xsa, it has been believ-
 he reasons and the prin- ,s which i aas D sed its be- 1 must get the H.e..- d setting Iy past; for on!y in 1ae - ItsIl we be able 10 a y,d the p.ental phenolae:.;.
 rlle the attitude and the @e-5 krmany of the present.
 sss of any sympathy, or lack Ihy. tha, nay exist bet ween km government and the Ger vle-whether the blame for
 and in particular for its un- led brutalities. rests upon the lsn caste alone or upon the $. of the people of Germany ! the philosophy of Germany rvst look for the real cause kOdy iniquity. For. mediately Eistely, Germany has been
 hloody instrument Of a false y-a philosophy that bloomed
 blatant blasphemies of
 and truited upon the blood )slds of France and Belgium s and Roumania and Meso- snd Russia.
 philosophy that comments lrases against undefended, berChantmen and passenger n the high seas; that gloats nsngled forms of little chil-
 in Zeppelin raids upon non- )t, that honors the Judas ss who stir up sedition and tnst the neutral nations to E have been sccredited-un- commit the unpardonable of falling to obliterate complete ftsnces of their duplicity.
 be interesting. If space per
 go far back and trace the ert of this fearful philosophy Fsntity the channels through has been transmitted from fcuity. For it had its roots Flanes ago and is not a prod y' of the present age. That friendly environment among fnlc peoples, and particularly ! Der universities. many cen
 no one who reads history FhDlased mind will attempt to
 must be content with men Fy two or three philosophers iaaTely recent times These .
 Aoi so much for what they
 as because they gathered lle and transmissible form so 'lese iconoelastic doctrines a.uflng slowly beneath the 1 Gernan thought. were des- ad their ultimate expression Funss of Frederick Nietzsche. SnoWs no fatherland. Hence |'aSe no surprise that one of 'O.eht factors in shaping the philosophy was not of Ger In Niceolo Machiavelli. ,OuFtier of the Renaissance.
 ae unblushing champion of l'u intrigue as startled even interruptions diplomats Of required the mellowing in century or two. combined ''nlshing imparted by inter f%e or less removed. to so
 lN pernicious teachings as -'ul acceptable to any but an lra rNnndpled people. Ye, |' |s',' pfecepts, so softened, un- (.s s went far toward prepar- 'S soll for the more virile E... ".e'asehe. They tended, a. ,ss ssS down lingering scrupu l 'Lu '.. 10 breed contempt for \, (','aaauer al Nietzsehe found F,, master and. although he he kaa, kn nm later on, it is to I,ts.%, pfln'ipally. that he owes
 .lsae '. doctrine Of the Win l na.s1 a .Ss1ehopenhsur, it is true. s.,., n,.ely the Win to Live. bssInl' %'ied that doctrine to it's (s,ae s,aSion-if the Machiavel-