Without this blessed thing we would all slump into materialism. The Federation of the World and universal peace would mean that the human race would soon rot; for, he says, "to expand the idea of the state into that of humanity leads to error, since, in a human race conceived of as a whole, struggle would be ruled out, and struggle is the most essential vital principle."

War may seem cruel, but "the brutal incidents inseparable from every war vanish completely before the idealism of the main result."

It is really bad for nations when they are not cutting one another's throats. "Petty and personal interests force their way to the front during a long period of peace. Selfishness and intrigue run riot, and idealism is obliterated."

He frankly advocates the doctrine which most statesmen constantly practice-and constantly deny. "Christian morality is personal and social, and in its nature cannot be political."

"The United States of America championed the idea of universal peace in order to devote their undisturbed attention to money making and the enjoyment of wealth; they thus incur a great danger in avoiding the stress of great political emotions, without

which the moral development of the national character is impossible." Ouch!

"Arbitration treaties must be peculiarly detrimental to an aspiring people." That for Mr. Bryan and his scraps of paper!

"If we sum up our arguments, we shall see that the efforts directed toward the abolition of war must not only be termed foolish but absolutely immoral, and must be stigmatized as unworthy of the human race."

"The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized."

There have been books preaching free love; there have been apostles of anarchy and of "murder as a fine art"; and De Quincey also gave us the thieves' own book; there have been apostate priests who celebrated the Black Mass; and probably every perversion of the human spirit has had its exponents; but Bernhardi, who presents war, the most gigantic of all villainies, dressed up in angels' livery, is easily entitled to the blue ribbon, the first prize and the iron cross.

Friday, October 23, 1914.

RESULTS

RESULTS SO far of the great war are as follows:

1. More men killed than in any other war in history. "The death roll," writes Herbert Corey, "when it is finally made public will be absolutely appalling."

2. More men wounded. Wounds more terrible and painful.

3. More heartbroken women. More children left fatherless. More than in any previous conflict.

4. More ruthless brutality. Real or fancied offenses by non-combatant citizens being met by the fiercest retaliation.

5. Destruction of property and of human life upon a scale of magnitude and with circumstances of horror never before dreamed of. Raymond Swing tells of viewing the ruins of Fort Loncin, at Liége, where a Krupp gun projectile, fired from a distance of five and a half miles, by a lucky strike bored its way

down the air shaft of the fort's magazine, there exploded, "and in one second converted this excellent fortification into a heap of ghastly ruins, burying over 300 men under tons of masonry."

6. Masses of men sacrificed with more reckless disregard for human life than the world ever before has seen exhibited. Witness the continual advance in close formation against machine guns.

7. The most pitiable, childish boasting and braggadocio on all sides.

8. Systematic lying officially carried on, at Berlin, at Bordeaux, and at London.

9. Suppression of the real facts, both by prohibiting press representatives at the front, and by censorship by the government.

10. A luxuriant growth of a crop of spiritual weeds never before equalled; for when were ever displayed such violence of race hate, such intolerance of opinion, such rabid dispute, such willingness to resort to any means however abhorrent in order to insure victory, such pitiful prating of "honor," such indifference to suffering, such mad lust to kill?

II. World-wide suffering to a degree never before known. Business paralysis in America. All investments threatened with ruin. Petty wars in Africa. "Syria," according to the re

port of the Presbyterian Missionary Society, "engulfed by utter hopelessness; Persia in financial chaos; the industries of Chili prostrate; Guatemala driven to the hunger point; Japan, already debt laden, again under arms; China in anxiety." The noxious gases of the European explosion are asphyxiating the world.

12. The development of the militaristic illusion in the United States, where there are not wanting those who urge our country to increase its armament, thus preparing itself to plunge sooner or later into the same vortex of ruin.

If there be immortal gods who control the destinies of men, and who wish their destruction, they certainly seem to be preparing them for that doom by first making them mad. Saturday, October 24, 1914.