20 GERMANY IN SCIENCE 



is the product of the genius of Thomas Blanchard, an Ameri- 

 can, who patented the device^the year 1820. The first suc- 

 cessful machine-gun was invented by Dr.Gatlingof Indian- 

 apolis, Indiana, but is replaced to-day by others among which 

 is the Lewis gun, an American invention, now used by the 

 British Army. 



Rapid-firing field-guns, and marine guns bear the names 

 of Hotchkiss, and Maxim, Americans; of Nordenfeldt, a 

 Swede, of Armstrong, an Englishman. These were later fol- 

 lowed by Herr Krupp of Essen. 



The science of war! That is a science, which I suppose we 

 must cultivate when madmen get the reins of power into their 

 hands, and inflamed by jealousy, greed, and hate, set about 

 crushing every man who stands in their pathway. 



It is not a noble science, nor is war a noble art. We resort 

 to it as a last dire necessity, as we resort to the use of clubs, 

 stones, and pistols when a mad dog is loose in the streets. Wars 

 of conquest undertaken by ambitious and greedy men and races 

 deserve in this age to be looked upon as nothing more than 

 murder, and ' 'glorious war/ ' in the case of those who begin it 

 should find an end for them in a slip-noose, or the electric chair. 

 When rulers seek to do God's will on earth as it is done in 

 heaven, the art of war will cease. But as long as the devil 

 sits incarnate on earthly thrones I suppose we shall have to 

 fight him with his own weapons, and when we have to do it, 

 it ought to be with all our might, and soul, and strength. 



Some one asks "What about the metaphysical sciences 

 and the science of ethics?" Germany once had some great phil- 

 osophers and ethical teachers: but they are all dead. Luther 

 is dead, Kant is dead. The Germany which sent to Pennsyl- 

 vania a Zinzendorf , a Zeisberger, and a Heckewelder to preach 

 the Gospel of good-will and brotherly kindness to the poor and 

 the savages has vanished. The Germany which gave us a 

 Steuben, a Muhlenberg, a Sigel, and a Schurtz is a Germany 

 which has past away. We stand confronting a Germany, mad 

 with lust for gold and world-power, which in school and church 

 is teaching a "doctrine of devils," proclaiming that the crime 



