Repository: UIHistories Project: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 25 [PAGE 6]

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among the peoples of Europ to cross her will, but by thousands of our own people who below appreciation of German political philosophy and its goai, preached and taught for years the doctrines of German superiority and German efficiency. American students and American university professors went for higher education to Germany, and without realizing the trend of the philosophical ideas which underlay the education they received, came back in scores and hundreds to spread German them ers, and have been unable ever to rid themselves of the imperialistic point of view which they acquired at these German seats of learning. They have unconsciously spread doctrines that are pernicious in a democracy. They have urged the adoption of German methods, standards and plans, apparently without any consciousness of the fact that these methods and plans were adopted in Germany for the sake of furthering certain purposes which have no place in the life of a democratic people. They have become in many cases apologists for things German, even some of the worst things that have disgraced humanity in the present war. They have become centers of influence for the promotion of German Kultar in university classrooms, in the school room and in the press. They have gone so far in some cases as to be, whether purposely or not, agents of the propaganda of German Kultar Some of them have made themselves ridiculous by publishing works trying to establish the doctrine that everything of imrtance m the United States had a German origin; that some ot the greatest writers in English literature and philosophy C1USiVdy t o G e r m a Z r S i i? ™ for their inspiration and short S o d amonftL T ^ T * * * ' * • ™>ts of all that is

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uerman sources. The doctrine of efficiency ha* K„l reachea preached ° r mv> years, and German exampleI i„ 1 ™ P example in this respect has been held up

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