ACCEPTING THE UNIVERSE 



alone has exhibited it, and cultivated the will to 

 destroy and defame till mankind, with one accord, 

 bestowed upon them their ancestral name, the 

 Huns. They went forth to burn and pillage anc 1 

 murder, and, so far as lay in their power, to destroy 

 the very earth of the peoples they sought to con- 

 quer. They summoned to their aid all the diabolical 

 forces of which chemistry is capable, and if they 

 could have controlled the seismic and meteorologi- 

 cal forces as well, who doubts that they would have 

 made a desert, blackened with fire and torn by 

 earthquakes, where dwell the nations that opposed 

 them? 



The spirit they showed in the World War, and 

 the nefarious crimes of which they were guilty, make 

 it a serious question whether or not they should not 

 be forever cast out from the family of civilized na- 

 tions; whether, indeed, they should not be com- 

 pletely wiped off the map as a nation, and their 

 power for further evil forever destroyed. 



"There is no place in the world of the future," 

 says Dr. Jacks, "for a people whose policy is tainted 

 by the instinct for cruelty." 



If Nature were as cruel as the Germans are, if the 

 same lust for blood and suffering had run in her 

 veins, if she had, in the same spirit of riot and wan- 

 tonness, destroyed her own creatures and laid waste 

 her own provinces, would you or I, or any one else, 

 have been here to pass judgment upon her doings? 



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