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which individuals may not commit, may with impunity be 

 committed by men in their collective capacity as states. To- 

 day it is not necessary to be "set down" "somewhere east of 

 Suez" to find a place "where there aint no Ten Command- 

 ments. ' ' It may be found wherever Prussian militarism has 

 planted its cloven hoof upon the soil of Europe. We are fac- 

 ing a Germany which has affiliated itself with Muhammed, 

 which in certain circles openly advocates plural marriages 

 and like Muhammed demands the subjugation of the world to 

 itself by the might of the sword, a Germany unmoral, brutal, 

 inhuman, which builds its policies upon broken oaths, which 

 shrinks from no falsehood which seems to serve its purpose, 

 a Germany without conscience and without heart, which iff 'the 

 fellowship of nations, when it comes at last to recover its san- 

 ity, will hang its head with shame. We, who know Germany 

 best, who are still proud of our descent from those who came 

 to this land from her soil, seeking, as did the Pilgrim Fathers, 

 freedom to worship God according to the dictates of their 

 consciences, and who are in this generation "Americans of the 

 Americans," are filled with inward loathing today as we con- 

 template the crimes which Germany, while invoking the aid of 

 Heaven, is committing against the poor and the defenseless, 

 her violation of solemn oaths and covenants, her resurrection 

 of human slavery, her defiance of the principles of truth 

 and honor, her utter lack of chivalry, her cold-blooded brutal- 

 ity, her cynical indifference to all the dictates of a refined 

 and generous manhood. 



But I have said enough. It only remains for me in con- 

 clusion to repeat, what I intimated at the outset, that it is a 

 gross delusion to imagine that the German intellect today holds 

 a supreme place in science in any field. When you hear the 

 claim made, deny it! Except as science has helped in recent 

 years to fill the German pocket-book or the graves of a hun- 

 dred battle-fields with the dead, there has been little attention 

 paid to it. / Even at his best the German has mainly been a- 

 daptive ana imitative, not creative/\ He has been a plodder, as- 

 similating and using the results of the work of other men, 



