Postscript 357 



survival hy])()tlicsis by Griiiiaii spcciilat ion lias not \(t \nvi\ 

 subjected to thor()ugli-«4()inn- Ijiolo^lcal criticism, tliougli sev- 

 eral moves in tliis direction have been made. 



Even the realism of recent (ierman j)oHtii-al and economic 

 tlieory and practice is a "highly strained" sjK'culative real- 

 ism. This philoso})hical monstrosity is largely attribntabh-, 

 demonstrably so I believe, to a cultural and govirmnental 

 system in which the principle of universal organic personality 

 is grossly violated. And what a price in misery and blood 

 and treasure the whole world, but old Europe ))articularly, 

 is paying for a consummation wliich a truer ])hilos()])liy of 

 life would have foreseen and forestalled ! 



Can the leaders of German Kultur be convinced of the 

 fundamental fallacy of their theory of human and nationjd 

 life, only by discovering that their military establishment, 

 built up through many decades of ])atient, costly organiza- 

 tion and discipline, but under guidance of a ])hiloso})hy of 

 mechanism and brutism, is yet incapable of overpowering a 

 military establishment, a large portion of which may be im- 

 provised in the course of a few months, if such improvision 

 be under guidance of a philosophy of personality and hu- 

 manism.'^ 



