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been accused of sinning against the light. 

 Of course we have. Over us, too, the wave 

 swept, but I protest against the selection of 

 us for special blame. The other day, in an 

 address on ' c The Comradeship of Letters ' * 

 at Turin, President Wilson is reported to 

 have said: "It is one of the great griefs of 

 this war that the universities of the Cen- 

 tral Empires used the thoughts of science 

 to destroy mankind; it is the duty of the 

 universities of these states to redeem science 

 from this disgrace and to show that the 

 pulse of humanity beats in the classroom, 

 and that there are sought out not the secrets 

 of death but the secrets of life." A pious 

 and worthy wish ! But once in war a nation 

 mobilizes every energy, and to say that 

 science has been prostituted in discovering 

 means of butchery is to misunderstand the 

 situation. Slaughter, wholesale and unre- 

 stricted, is what is sought, and to accom- 

 plish this the discoveries of the sainted 



