The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-20

for the purpose of swallowing up ev-
erything into itself, to put the matter
in a Observation-Disclosures human be-
ings as well as material things. The
state is everything = Right. Morality,
Force-such was the Prussian dictrine.
In vain the French Revolution pass
ed, like thunderbolt, hurting thrones
into the dust Not even the French
Revolution could crush that concep
ton of the state. In vain the Revolu
ton of 1S4S, more international in
aspect, came into being, that revolu-
ton whose dawn was too close to its
decline. 1t moved mems souls, put its
impress upon them, aroused them be-
cause of its romanticism, inspired
some generous acts which clothed
only to die down again forever into
nothingness under the boot of the SOL
dier.
Growth of MateriaIism.
From this political materialism,
whose weapon was militarism, came
economic materialism, wherein it
found its resources, and later intellec-
tual materiaIism, it's guide and prop
agator, then social materialism, which
| imposed with heavy hand upon the
| German working class-also dominated
French thought for too long, and brush
ed aside too long the fruit of the
thoughts of Rousseau, Considerant,
Louis Blanc, Proudhon. The world has
seen what socialistic independence in
Germany became under this system of
education. This will be pointed out
again in the course of these pages.
Let US bear in mind, for the present,
the sinister lessons taught by those
twin teachers, German philosophy and
German literature. 1t was not case
as with us French in our glorious eigh
teenth century, of thought creating in
the human mind independence of rea
soning; of philosophy proclaiming the
| rights of all; of a cohort of juristS
| breaking down the deadly formula Of
superannuated traditions; of genius
| imprisoned in the Bastille, wearing
away the stones that had lasteG
through the centuries until, at last, the
people smashed to pieces what wa:
l left. In Prussia there was none of al
: this-whatever thought existed there
!, was material, remained material, serv
ed only to Strengthen what was mate
: rial Thus did Prussia form her con
ception of the omnipotence and unit.
of the state.
Crime of German Thought.
: The crime of the entire German
: school of thought-with the exception
I of certain minds that were refractor.
! to this enterprise which, none the less
! was of a general character-was t
have tolerated the conception that rea
I soning should be subordinated to force
: What hUmiliating spectacle, alike 70
; the mind and the eye, are those length
7 dissertations, so often reported-ant
which reappeared in part quite recent
. (which exalted force into a divinit
> of whom man was the slave and Gel
! many the temple!
How can nation live otherwis
; than according to such principles?
1 asked the Germans-such an exiStenc
was, to them, incomprehensible. Thi
# line of reasoning easily led them t
e the conclusion that any nation denyin
L such principles was of an inferior sor
L that it should be Gespised and scorT
= ed, that it should be subiugated b
: means of an alliance, if self-interest de-
s manded, or-if interest pointed in al
g other direction-that war should b
d waged against it.
e Germans Taught to Hate.
/ And so it came about that hat
n against England was preached, agains
l. England, which protected her movin
barrier of ships, thwarting Germa
n power and neutralizing German con
!, merce, And hate was preached ais
it against France from the very begin
:; ming OF the eighteenth century, eve