have seen, has no justification in the creative processes 

 of nature. It is this very attribute of super-service, 

 entering into all the constructive processes of nature, 

 which demands the intelligent use of altruistic methods 

 in international relations. 



While this philosophy of international robbery was 

 not peculiar to Germany, no other nation so deliberately 

 made it the basis of all its policies, or in its name so 

 cunningly organized its educational system for destruc- 

 tive purposes; so knowingly prostituted the precious 

 heritage of its scientific fervor, its religion, and its love 

 of truth, to shameless propagandism; so cheaply sold 

 its honor to opportunity; or whose people have been so 

 intoxicated by the momentary success of its criminal 

 doctrines. 



VIII. Education as a Directive Agency to Social 



Egoism 



Germany's power to accomplish her purpose was 

 destroyed, or temporarily nullified, by force. But there 

 is no force that can destroy her purpose. That purpose 

 will live, as well elsewhere, as in Germany. For "mili- 

 tarism" is a protean spirit, assuming many physical 

 disguises. It is the abiding egoistic attribute of prog- 

 ress; a recurrent organic disease, proclaiming in the 

 delirium of its excesses some increasing unbalancing of 

 the cooperative system, due either to environmental 

 changes, or to the rise or decline of internal resources. 

 It is as permanent as life, as incurable as death; a per- 

 petual menace to every social organism, which a better 

 education can better direct, but can never destroy. That 

 education must be ever in large excess of present needs. 



