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In the recent war, the conflicting individualities 

 were intellectual groups, chiefly antagonized by dif- 

 ferences in education and ideals. 



Prussia, the leading state of one group, was a politi- 

 cal monstrosity, a reversion to embryonic, ancestral con- 

 ditions, in that she still so largely retained, in her higher 

 intellectual life, the nullifying vestiges of criminal 

 purposes. 



And Prussia preferred to capitalize her misfortune, 

 rather than to cauterize it. She sought to save herself 

 from an organic disease by combining the crudities of 

 barbarism with the idealism of modern science and the 

 spiritual forces of religion. She thereby destroyed the 

 very sources of her greatness. For the spirit of truth 

 and the spirit of service, the great creative forces of 

 science and religion, cannot live in the same soil with 

 barbarism. 



For this insanity of purpose, the false interpreta- 

 tion of evolution by her biologists was very largely re- 

 sponsible. Her intellectual life had long been satur- 

 ated with their pernicious teachings, impelling her 

 leaders and laymen, in all walks of life, to justify their 

 immoral ambitions by an appeal to the ruthless bru- 

 tality of animal life, and to smother the instinctive out- 

 cries of outraged humanity by a pseudo-scientific inter- 

 pretation of the "struggle for existence" and "the sur- 

 vival of the fittest," where, forsooth, such sentimental- 

 ism as benevolence and altruism does not exist! Never 

 were science, religion, and philosophy, and the good 

 common sense of the layman, jointly committed to a 

 more palpable error. 



This half-witted philosophy of dominion, that looks 

 only inwards to self, never outwards beyond self, as we 



