The Days of a Man 



L1910 



Eucken 



both 



moralist 



arid 



militarist 



How can the relations between Germany and France be 

 made better? Certainly through giving the people of Elsass- 

 Lothringen the greatest possible independence, with freedom 

 to continue the use of the French language and the like. To this 

 end there must rule between Germany and France, and for that 

 matter through Europe generally, a higher socio-political rela- 

 tion than at present. This should begin with a customs-union 

 and with parliamentary control. The International Court needs 

 organization and expansion in power until its jurisdiction in- 

 cludes the whole earth. 



From Berlin I went to Jena with a letter of intro- 

 duction to Dr. Rudolph Eucken, the greatest of Ger- 

 man teachers of Ethics, given me by his disciple, Dr. 

 Tudor Jones, then of London but in whose church at 

 Brisbane I once made an address. Jones had edited 

 the English translations of Eucken's works and served 

 as his intellectual representative in London. 



Eucken was an agreeable and simple-hearted gen- 

 tleman especially interested in the morals of the Jena 

 students and keenly desirous of ridding the Univer- 

 sity of the " Bier-Philister" — those whose interest in 

 higher education centers in the Kneipe and the duel. 

 He thus spoke with some bitterness of the fact that 

 when early graduates come back and find drinking and 

 dueling customs decidedly abated, they complain that 

 Jena has "lost its spirit!" Strangely enough, how- 

 ever, I found him holding the militarist view that 

 war is a necessity of the state, its horrors a form of 

 growing pains to be endured because inevitable in the 

 process of national growth. It seems singular that 

 Bismarckism through its apparent success should 

 have gained such a hold on German scholars. One of 

 Eucken's own students, Dr. Howard Brunt of Halifax, 

 once applied to me for an explanation of this paradox. 



I discussed with Eucken various public questions. 



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