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ing so fully convinces us of the thinness of Teutonic culture as 
its gross, brazen appeal to its tribal Gods. It makes the heart 
ache to read of the studied, cold-blooded indorsement of all the 
crimes of Pan-Germanism by a servile Teutonic ministry and 
religious press. All that Christianity stood for as the perme- 
ating, unifying force of mankind was brushed aside by the 
military lord. The appeal to the higher sentiments of men, like 
the appeal to the unification of labor, was felt to be only 
another bond that made for the solidarity of a conquering 
nation and the impenetrability of its Kultur. 
Internationalism in labor we may reject as leading to the 
state of the Bolsheviki, but the universality of the religion 
under which all men are brothers must survive; it must not be 
swallowed up in the conception of any national Kultur. To be 
sure, when the war is over, and when men in Teutonia may 
again speak out, we shall learn that in this modern Israel, as 
in that of the days of Elijah, there will be found 7,000 men who 
have not bowed the knee to Baal, nor kissed his golden image. 
But they are gone as effective agents in this war. So far as we 
can see, only the Social Democrat speaks out, and he less and 
less clearly, as fraternization with the Bolsheviki grows less 
and less useful to the purposes of the military party. 
A third agency, which we had thought would make impos- 
sible such an estrangement as came in 1914, was that of the 
intellectual fraternity of our Western world, including the 
brotherhood of the men of science. We can see why religious 
leaders might forget the universal faith, when we remember 
that in all the contending countries, men’s aspirations have be- 
come embodied in historic churches, rites and creeds. But none 
of these existed in Science. Science, we were told, is too young, 
too practical and too intellectual to be swayed by historic state- 
craft and by outgrown governmental systems. Men even 
thought a bit archaic and in poor taste the stalwart patriotism 
of Pasteur, who because his beloved Strasbourg was alienated 
in 1871, refused to hold or to accept any honors which the 
Teutons sought to confer upon him for his priceless discoveries 
on the origin of disease. Yet in spite of this feeling, when the 
coup of 1914 was to be sprung, we have no record of any 
attempt by German science to stay the hand of the militarists 
