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material efficiency, for power to rule the world of 

 material forces. We have cultivated science as if it 

 were our salvation; we have builded upon it and 

 followed it eagerly wherever it has led, and it has 

 led us to new conquests on all sides. We have all 

 been part of a world movement for world power. 

 The gods we have really worshiped have been and 

 are the gods of material things. In this movement 

 Germany has led all other nations. Its fullest flower- 

 ing and fruit have been with her. She has gone soul 

 and body to efficiency on this low plane. She is 

 drunk with the wine of her own material prosperity. 

 The Darwinian principle of the struggle and the sur- 

 vival of the fittest has become the corner-stone of 

 Germany's philosophy of national life. In brute 

 strength and the will to conquer she leads. And it 

 has looked at times as if she might dominate the 

 world and impose her Kultur upon us all. The gods 

 of science are on her side, but the gods of the moral 

 law are on the side of the Allies and I cannot believe 

 they will give world dominion into her hands. If they 

 should, then good-bye to that spirit that has made 

 France and Italy and England what they are, and 

 that has made America what she is, the spirit of 

 freedom, of justice, of ideal values, — our blended 

 inheritance from Greece and Judea and the medita- 

 tive Orient,— the spirit that begat literature, poesy, 

 art, music. The later generations of Germans have 

 produced nothing better or higher than Krupp 



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