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After all is not chemistry and science itself a petty matter 

 in the presence of this world calamity and the personal suffering 

 ever upon our minds? Have we not often wondered what we 

 had done to be spared to this minute from such things? It 

 may be proper to say we do not quarrel with the German people 

 as such, but with the ideals and acts of their leaders and govern- 

 ment. Do not let that point of view toward our neighbor, 

 however, be used by us to excuse our individual responsibility 

 for this government and its every act. We are responsible, and 

 we alone. We have seen conclusive proof in the last three years 

 that science and education are merely aids and not specifics 

 against international immorality and that the devotees of 

 science are as easily misled as others when the leaders too are 

 scientific. Though this war has long become evident as a war 

 for privilege and the exploitation of the weak by the strong, 

 and the doctrine that the state can do no wrong rather than 

 that the state must do no wrong, let us not deceive ourselves 

 that our abolition of aristocratic government is a specific for 

 this malady, for it is not. This is our constant battle still, 

 even under our form of government. 



It has become so evident in this war that the intelligent 

 and scientific criminal is a terrible menace, and dislodging him 

 at times such a weary and fatal task, that we must find some 

 way of preventing our leaders and groups or classes, whether 

 governmental or industrial, from becoming this kind of danger. 



Have we not reached the time when we are willing to turn 

 to the One who ordained civil government for our good, acknowl- 

 edge that He ordained it and not we ourselves, and make our 

 leaders or rulers "Whom God and this people shall choose" — 

 "men fearing God and hating covetousness?" 



The Ohio State University, Columbus. 



