22 GERMANY IN SCIENCE 



whom he had not always thanked, and whose labors he has 

 often appropriated without due acknowledgement. He has 

 been intellectually as well as otherwise dishonorable and dis- 

 honest. Science in Germany has for years been more or less 

 decadent. Six years before this war broke out I walked with 

 one of the leading scientific men of Germany through one of. 

 its museums. I commented upon the appearance of things, and 

 asked him why some of the shabby and disreputable fur- 

 niture I saw about me was not replaced with something more 

 modern and up to date. He answered me by saying: ' 'Heut- 

 zutage in Deutschland giebt's kein Geld fuer die Wissenschaft; 

 alles muss f uer's Militaerwesen verwendet werden. ' ' There is 

 no money today in Germany for science, everything must be spent 

 in preparationfor war. That is the secret of Germany's back- 

 ward state, for morally and intellectually, as well as physically 

 and financially Germany, in spite of all her boasting, and her 

 vain-glorious claims to human leadership, is two centuries be- 

 hind the times. Her goverment is a tyrannical despotism, her 

 spirit is that of the ancient Hebrews and Philistines, her voice 

 reflects the language of the imprecatory Psalms, and nottha^ 

 of Him, " who spake as never man spake/' Her "Gott" to- 

 day is a creation of the imagination like Moloch or Baal. She 

 has exalted the sword of steel above * 'the sword of the spirit, ' ' 

 and instead of preaching good- will to men, she chants "songs 

 of hate" born of hearts filled with the vanity of parvenus and 

 the gall and worm- wood of envy. Germany by the acts of 

 her bloody dynastic rulers has had the mark of Cain set upon 

 her forehead. No wonder that the world, from the palaces of 

 the rich, to the huts of the savage poor, despises her, and 

 will in coming years have as little as possible to do with her. 

 Shall we in coming years send our sons to be educated in 

 her universities? Never again. I say NEVER! They will learn 

 little science, and as for ethics, they might as well be sent to 

 school to old Satan himself. Exchange professors! we have 

 had too many already; we wish no more. The scheme of ex- 

 changing professors was a part of the German propaganda, 

 cunningly devised to help promote the scheme of world-do- 

 minion, hatched by the Kaiser and his confederates. 



