Evening star., 1943-03-08
BY the Associated Press.

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| DELAWARE, Ohio. March g.
The tert OF Vice President Wal
lace's address today at the confer
ence on Christian bases OF uorld
order tolloirs:
There are three great PHILOSOPHERS
in the world today The first, based
or the supremacy Of might over
right. saws that war between ma
tions is inevitable until such time
as single master race dominates
the entire world and every one is
assigned his daily task by an arro-
CANT, self-appointed fuehrer. The
second-the MARKHAM philosophy
says that class warfare is inevitable
until such time as the proletariat
/ comes out on top. everywhere in the
world, and can start building a So
ciety without classes. The third
which we in this country know as
the democratic Christian philosophy
denies that man was made for
war. whether it be war between ma
tons or war between classes, and
asserts boldly that ultimate peace
| is inevitable. that all men are
| brothers and that God is their
| Father.
! This democratic philosophy per-
vades not only the hearts and minds
of those who live by the Christian
religion. both Protestant and Cath
| olic. but OF those who draw their
| inspiration from Mohammedanism,
Judaism, Hinduism, Confusianism
vSA NJ fa5f T.
beneath the outer forms, we find
that all these faiths, in one way or
another, preach the doctrine of the
| dignity Of each individual human
SOUL the doctrine that God intended
man to be good neighbor to his
| fellow man, and the doctrine of the
essential unity of the entire world
| Those who think most about in
dividualism preach freedom Those
who think most about unity, whether
it be the unity of a nation or of the
entire world. preach the sacred obli-
CATION OF duty There is a seeming
conflict between freedom and duty.
and 1t takes the spirit of democracy
to resolve It. Only through religion
and education can the freedom
loving individual realize that his
greatest private pleasure comes from
serving the highest unity. the gen.
eral welfare of all This truth, the
essence of democracy. must capture
the hearts of men over the entire
world. if human civilization is not to
be torn to pieces in a series of wars
and revolutions far more terrible
than anything that has vet been
endured. Democracy is the hope of
civilization.
Examines Each Philosophy.
To understand the significance of
these three PHILOSOPHERS dominant
in the world today, let us look at
each one in turn. During the last
80 years the outstanding exponent
OF the sacredness and inevitability of
war has been blind Prussia. BY ma
ture the common people OF Prussia
are simple and hard-working and
make excellent citizens except where
they have become infected by the
Prussian doctrine that might makes
right. The Prussian philosophy
causes its adherents to practice
many of the highest virtues, but
these virtues are all ultimately
placed at the disposal OF supreme
evil Hitler. seizing the Prussian
militaristic tradition as a powerful
instrument in his hands and put
ting 1t to use with his own religious
frenzy has become the anti-Christ
OF this generation-perhaps the most
complete anti-Christ who ever lived
1t is not enough to bring about the
downfall Of Hitler. We must under
stand the origin and growth OF the
Prussian spirit and do something to
counteract that spirit II we wish to
bring permanent peace
The Prussian attitude toward war
and supremacy has strong roots.
Whether it reaches back to the days
| Of Caesar or whether it first took
form under the guidance of the
Teutonic knights in the Middle
Ages, We are certain Of this: BY the
time of Frederick the Great the
Prussians consciously adopted the
doctrine OF total war and the total
state as the chief end of man. Bis
| marck and Kaiser Wilhelm II mod
ernized and made completely
deceitful and ruthless that which
Frederick the Great had founded.
Shortly after Kaiser Wilhelm II
rose to power, generation before
the First World War, one of the
more tender hearted of the German
generals said. in addressing his
troops: "Our civilization must build
its temple on mountains of corpses.
an ocean Of tears and the groans OF
innumerable dying men"
Urged to Seek Fight.
We know now. to our sorrow, that
those were not just idle words. But
God grant they will not be true
much longer.
Bernhard and Treitschke. through
the printed page and through the
classroom. preached the glory of
war and the necessity of Germany
picking quarrel with England or
France Frederick the Great, Moltke
and Bismarck were proclaimed as
being superior to Goethe, Schiller. |
Bash and Beethoven. Hegel laid
broad and deep the philosophy of
the totalitarian state Other philos-
ophers, and especially Nietzsche |
seized on the Darwinian doctrines of /
natural selection and survival of the
flttest to erect seemingly scientific |
but false materialism to justify their
ruthless acts
In saying all of this. I do not
mean to indicate that Prussia was
the only wicked state in the world. /
England, France, Russia, Spain and .
the United States were not always .
perfect. But Prussia and Japan were
the only countries which systemat-
ically devoted the highest virtures of |
their citizenry, generation after gen.
Grafton, to the glorif1cation of the |
State and to the ruthlessness Of war.
The ancestors OF many of the
people of German origin in the
United States were members of the
minority in Germany who dissented
from the extremist tendencies to-
ward militarism. Thousands OF .
these dissenters migrated to this ,
o. ftor