igicTi Europe Again 



poses, these being to attend the World Congress of 

 Zoology held that year in Austria, and, under the 

 auspices of the World Peace Foundation, to meet the 

 pacifists of Europe. To thirty-three of the latter I 

 bore introductions from Mr. Mead; twenty-six of 

 them I was able to visit, nearly all at their own homes. 

 But though an accredited delegate to four of the five 

 World Congresses of the summer, I attended only WorU 

 two, that of Free Christianity — '' Freies Christen- c^nrcsses 

 turn" — at Berlin, and the gathering of zoologists 

 at Gratz. The other three — the Free Trade Congress 

 at Antwerp, the World Peace Congress at Stockholm, 

 and the Interparliamentary Union at Brussels — I 

 seemed forced to omit for one reason or another. . 

 Afterward I realized that attendance at those meet- 

 ings also would have helped my work by extending 

 my range of personal acquaintance among the for- 

 ward-looking scholars of Europe. 



Landing in London, we promptly left for Berlin, Free 

 and traveled from Aix-la-Chapelle to our destination christian- 

 with the late Dr. Bonnet-Maury, the broad-minded ^Berlin 

 professor of Theology in the University of Paris, with 

 whom I had an interesting discussion on world affairs. 

 He insisted truthfully that France was not "degen- 

 erate" (as certain Germans affirmed) but rather a 

 wounded nation — une nation blessee. 



The Congress was well attended by representatives 

 from various nations, my old friend Dr. Charles W. 

 Wendte serving as general secretary.^ In the Kaiser's "jvar and 

 Landzvehrhalle (armory) I gave ■ — in German — an ^^"■■*^hood" 

 address which I called " Krieg und Mannheit" (War xJIer's 

 and Manhood). This was a development of my argu- armory 

 ment that war picks out the weaklings and leaves 



^ See Vol. I, Chapter xix, page 465. 



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