The Days of a Man 1913 



with Professor Ludwig Quidde in the chair. Present 

 Friends in the audience were Professors Leo Wiener of 

 from home Harvard, Adolph Barkan and Henry W. Stuart of 

 Stanford, besides various members of the Corda 

 Fratres of which Mez still remained world president. 

 At the close of my talk Dr. Barkan spoke eloquently 

 and appreciatively of my work at Stanford and my 

 efforts for conciliation. Among the student group was 

 Padmandha Pillay, a clever Hindu interested in my 

 view of the downfall of nations through war. To his 

 mind the collapse of the Mogul empire in the 

 sixteenth century repeated in cause and effect the 

 decline and fall of Rome. Another student was a 

 Belgian who afterward fell at Namur. 



Quidde Quidde, an idealist and opponent of autocracy, had 

 ell uia kad a var i e d career. Some twenty-five years earlier he 

 published a life of Caligula, quoting largely from 

 the utterances of that upstart emperor and from 

 contemporary accounts of his activities. The close 

 resemblance between the temperament and pro- 

 nouncements of the young Kaiser and those of 

 Caligula as presented by Quidde led to the latter's 

 arrest on the charge of lese-majeste. During the trial 

 he was asked by the prosecutor whom he "had in 

 mind in preparing his book." "Why, Caligula, of 

 course," he retorted. "Whom do you think I meant?" 

 Nevertheless, his courage cost him dearly in that it 

 kept him from ever becoming full professor in the 

 University of Munich, his chair being in an affiliated 

 branch only. Having long labored in the cause of 

 internationalism, during the war he came under the 

 ban of the government, and (so I am informed) was 

 confined to his house without mail, telegraph, or 

 telephone privileges. 



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