The Days of a Man 1910 



/ "also them at home to breed. My talk was listened to very 

 respectfully, with a single interruption toward the 

 end when some person said "Genug!' (Enough!), 

 but remained quiet as I assured him that the end was 

 very near. From the walls, however, grim helmeted 

 generals glowered in their canvases, while paintings 

 of the bloody charges at Sedan incongruously pointed 

 my moral. 



The reporters for the various city papers asked for 

 copies of the address, and I had a synopsis ready for 

 their use. Nowhere, however, did more than two 

 lines appear, these being to the general effect that 

 ''the rector of Stanford University also spoke" 

 " sprach auch." The substance of my notes was nev- 

 ertheless afterward published in Vienna by Dr. Alfred 

 H. Fried in pamphlet form, and then widely dis- 

 tributed, free, through Germany and Austria. I notice 

 now (1920) that it is on sale in a German bookshop at 

 1.25 marks, being advertised as " interessant" 



During the Congress provision was made by the 

 Berlin authorities for an excursion to Potsdam, with 

 luncheon in the Imperial park, for all of which we 

 were each charged in advance. But at Potsdam we 

 looked in vain for carriages, and the hot sun made 

 walking unbearable. Falling into the company of a 

 distinguished Danish delegate, Madame Wester- 

 mann, I explained to her the distinction between 

 arrat and "great" and i( near-great." For the great, carriages 

 near-great are always furnished; to the near-great tickets are 

 provided at their own expense, with such entertain- 

 ment as they can find. After a brief interval, belong- 

 ing as we did to the near-great, we turned our backs 

 on the invisible luncheon and took the tramcar back 

 to Berlin. 



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