Postscript 357 



survival hypothesis by German speculation has not yet been 

 subjected to thorough-going biological criticism, though sev- 

 eral moves in this direction have been made. 



Even the realism of recent German political and economic 

 theory and practice is a "highly strained" speculative real- 

 ism. This philosophical monstrosity is largely attributable, 

 demonstrably so I believe, to a cultural and governmental 

 system in which the principle of universal organic personality 

 is grossly violated. And what a price in misery and blood 

 and treasure the whole world, but old Europe particularly, 

 is paying for a consummation which a truer philosophy of 

 life would have foreseen and forestalled ! 



Can the leaders of German Kultur be convinced of the 

 fundamental fallacy of their theory of human and national 

 life, only by discovering that their military establishment, 

 built up through many decades of patient, costly organiza- 

 tion and discipline, but under guidance of a philosophy of 

 mechanism and brutism, is yet incapable of overpowering a 

 military establishment, a large portion of which may be im- 

 provised in the course of a few months, if such improvision 

 be under guidance of a philosophy of personality and hu- 

 manism ? 



