Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25 [PAGE 11]

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writer of this tine piece 01 eimcs goes on to say tnat it people are not Germanic, and they are essentially aliens to Germanic culture, the only question i s : Are they in our way? "If they are," he says, "to spare them would be folly/' We are told that "between states regarded as intelligent beings disputes can be settled only by force." This idea was advanced by Lasson as early as 1868. H e was one of the professors of philosophy at the University of Berlin, under whom, doubtless, many American students have sat. He tells us, too, in the same volume, that the state can realize itself only by the destruction of other states, which, logically, can be brought violence the German the best. name throughout the world, but who has joined the band of degraded intellectuals who have thrown morality, common sense and honesty to the winds, tells us that "One single, highly cultivated, German warrior of those who are, alas, falling in thousands, represents a higher intellectual and moral life value than hundreds of the raw children of nature whom England, France, Russia and Italy oppose to them." The same ethics, °r lack of ethics, is shown in the remark of Karl Kuhn, of Charlottenburg, who in philosophical ecstacy exclaims: "Must kultur rear its domes over mountains of corpses, oceans of tears and the death rattle of the conquered? Yes; it must The might of the conqueror is the highest law before which the conquered must The state, we are told, need pay no attention to the moral Jaw. As long ago as 1906 the German doctrine was expounded whom I quote, as the right of might. writers war the Germanic settlements will be taken away. By right of war the n «>n-Germanic [population] in America and Great Australia niust be settled in Africa By right of war we can send Da ck the useless South American romance peoples and the half-breeds to North Africa

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