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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1914
SILENCE.
Silence is the element in which
great , things fashion themselves to
gether; that at length they may
emerge, full-formed and majestic, into
the daylight of life, which they are
henceforth to rule. Carlyle.
Wait and see how the law students
can root.
The all-University party Friday
night will be one of the big social
functions of the year. If you know
of any alumni who will be in town
that night, drop them a card inviting
them to the part'. It will be an ex
cellent place for old students to meet.
Of course, you will be there yourself.
BELGIUM.
Seven million men, women and
children in Belgium are threatened
with starvation. The population of
the United States is close to 100,000,
000, and our wealth is computed to
be $130,000,005,000.
We in peace and plenty praise Bel
gium for her heroic stand. We have
expressed in verse and editorials our
profound sympathy.
Little Belgium is appealing to big
America for bread. Will our pocket
books follow our sympathy? Can our
tribute to a brave but stricken people
be measured in fifty-cent pieces?
THE FORUM
German Culture and Militarism.
To the Editor:
Every German carries with himself
a panacea an unfailing cure for the
rest of the world, which he is ready to
prescribe in homeopathic or allopathic
doses according to circumstances. The
first constituent of this powerful
remedy is Messiah Wilhelm, who has
decreed, "There is but one law and
that is my law," also uttered "Sic volo,
sic, Jubeo." (Whatever I desire, I
order.) The next constituent is the
Almighty, not so powerful as Wilhelm
but nevertehless his faithful ally. The
last element of this great remedy is
"German Kultur," which means, as
Life says, 'pig iron, Krupps, ships,
beer, chemicals, music, discipline, mili
tary service and professors."
To an American, "culture" means
"refinement," "civilization," the hu
manities" and the like, as conceived
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by the liberal-minded Gustav Biselng
when he compares British civilization
with, that of Germany. "Culture" ana
"education" are not synonymous "Cul
ture Is the result of a long hard evolu
tlon of the species rathr than of the
Individual; but "education" . can be
grafted on the Individual from with
out, scarcely affecting the bouI within
German 'Kultur" stands Isolated like
the pyramids and the Sphinx In the
desert eands of Egypt. Surely it does
not bring to Germany honor and glory
but the reverse of these. It has made
Germany tho Erls in the concert of
Europe, instead of the Invincible Ger-
nianlo.
A nation becomes more cultured as
it absorbs the spirit and Ideals of its
great ones. France is a good lllustra
tlon of this. The ideals of Voltaire
and Rousseau become an Integral part
of the nation and prepared the ma
terial for the French revolution. The
romantic period of Victor Hugo be
came a part of the French soul. The
great French artist and his works are
not merely for the single Individual,
but are also the common property of
the masses of the nation. French art
is not concealed in the museums and
salons. You meet it on every street,
in every garden, and on the elaborate
ly moulded corners of the houses.
Each Frenchman's house is a museum
in itself. Paris is a museum, a salon,
a work of art, the most beautiful city
in the world.
Every epoch has its calm. This can
be traced in the antiques of the na
tions remaining in the curio shops
where porcelain, bronze, old marble
and bric-a-brac are exhibited for sale.
The French have never recognized
other cultures than their own. Shake
speare is almost a stranger to the
French stage. Foreign dramas are
seldom played in the theaters of
France. But in Germany it is differ
ent. The dramas created by its lead
ing spirits, are more widely known in
other lands than in Germany.
Geothe is the symbol of righteous
ness and humanity, which he brought
to life in his period. There is a strong
resemblance between Goethe and the
wisest man of the Bible, King Solo
mon. Goethe, in his youth, sang "Die
Leiden des jungen Wurthers" a ver
itable "Song of Solomon." In his
prime he wrote "Hermann und Doro
thea," which is full of wise sayings
like Proverbs. In his old age Goethe
wrote "Faust" a modern Ecclesiastes.
Goethe, who calls on us to appreciate
life in all its beauty, as viewed from
every angle, now stands in Germany
like a castle in the wilderness. At
present the Germans are very far
from Schiller's idealism. The voice of
Beethoven, in his ninth symphony,
praising the good ones and chiding
the bad ones, falls on deaf ears. The
humanistic theory of Schopenhauer is
lost in the roar of the giant siege
guns at the battle front after being
submerged in times of peace by the
professional leaders of thought of the
Hegelian type so cordially detested by
Schopenhauer in his lifetime.
Every phenomenon in life must have
Its basis in the past. Therefore we
cannot believe that the great German
spirits sprang directly from heaven,
or appeared, Minerva-line, full-canopied
from the brow of Jove, neither
must we look for. their roots in the
German nation. Others have proved
that when Germany was poor in body,
she was rich in spirit. Goethe, Schil
ler, Kant, Schopenhauer and Beetho
ven, the fruits of Germany's renais
sance, were antecedents of German
imperialism before "Places in the
Sun' were so coveted before German
unity was in process of accomplish
ment. From that time till now, Ger
many has sought pre-eminence with
the sword and has been engulfed In
imperialism.
The German imperialism differs
from French imperialism in the time
of Napoleon. The latter is based on
"hero-worship"" of Bonaparte and the
desire on the part of France to share
republican institutions with the rest
of Europe to free monarchial Europe
from government by the sword and
the divine right of kings. The idollz
lng of Napoleon brought on the ro
mantic period In France. The Ger
man imperialism could not depend on
Its personalities for heroes. Its hero
was the sword, and Germany was
soon saturated with militarism, not
only In the army, but also in the civil
life and "Kultur."
Not long ago, the young German
crown prince gave out a parole which
became the countersign of all Ger
many. This parole was: "The earth
is not so safe in its movements as
Germany is In resting with her
sword."
Germany depends not on its spirit,
but rather on Herr Krupp's
Geschutze. Here we see the ideals of
German Imperialism resulting from
the victory over France. These ideals
are not spiritualistic, but materialistic.
They are expressed in Wagner's music
which exhalts the physical power of
nature by representing storms, light
ning, "Donner und BHtzen," etc.
The Idolizing of power has, as its
natural corollary, a militaristic nation
alism, 1. e., a nationalism which thinks
it necesssary that every individual
should serve In the army In which the
strength of the nation is supposed to
be. The nationalism of France has
not followed the path cleared by
Nietzsche, but on the contrary, has
followed the steps of Bergson, who
seeks to improve the common man In
stead of sacrificing him on the altar
of the cult of that vague abstraction,
'The Superman." This cult has flour
ished to such an extent in Germany
that it is ready to make a scapegoat
laboratory of entire Europe. From
this we see the Nietschelstic Von
Bethmann-Hollwig is logically correct
in breaking international law and de
stroying Belgium. He seems to be an
out-and-out convert to the doctrine set
forth in a recently published maxim
'The strong aspire, the shrewd con
spire, and the weak expire." That
scholar, Nietzsche, is a product of the
English materialistic school of Darwin
and Malthus, and the theory of the
struggle for existence. Malthus' the
ory was that "not all men have a
place at the banquet of nature first
come, first served." Then came Dar
win and proved it by nature. Nietzsche
swallowed the theories of both and
applied them to the moral sphere of
ife. He asserted that "might Is
right," and that is the moral core of
life. Sympathy, mercy, religion, these
form the ethical code of the weak,
who have not the power to exist alone.
Consequently, the weak are surplus
products degenerates of the world
and it is the ethical duty of the
stronger to eliminate them. It is
therefore the duty of German militar
ism to blot out the decadent Latin
civilizations in France, Belgium and
western Europe.
According to Professor Munster-
berg, no moral wrongs have been per
petrated by Germany or its foes in
the present war. It Is the ethical
duty of Russia to attempt to force its
Slavonic civilization on Germany and
vice versa, and of each to resist the
efforts of the other to the utmost. It
is a sign of moral vigor In England
to become intensely jealous of Ger
many's economic advance and to Beek
to put this formidable competition out
of the running. France should re
lentlessly pursue Its "Revanche" pol
icy, which is nothing but Gallic Neitz
schelsm. The destruction of German militar
ism will free the world from the can
non beast which swallows up the
strength and energy of humanity and
It will free true German culture from
the clutches of Nietzsche, Von Treit
schke and Bernhardi, so that it can
blossom as the rose at home In Ger
many as it now flourishes abroad.
When Krupp's factory is levelled to
the ground and a "Tier-garten" occu
pies its site, then German culture will
be appreciated world-wide.
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