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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



© Western Newspaper Union 



America's appeal to patriots was not in vain 



"The only way to stay the onrush of blood and desolation is to prove conclusively that 

 the Prussian masters of Germany do not possess the physical might to impose their will on 

 the human race." 



"Verily the Bible is our book. It was 

 given and assigned to us, and in it we 

 read the original text of our destiny, 

 which proclaims to mankind salvation or 

 disaster, as we zvill it." 



"As zve will it!" There, in four words, 

 is^ the whole story of the Prussian doc- 

 trine of the "superman," of a "place in the 

 jsun," of "world dominion." What a com- 



bination of sacrilege and vanity to assume 

 that the Almighty would confer on a 

 people such as the Prussians have shown 

 themselves to be divine powers on earth ! 

 These are enough, though many more 

 might be given, to show the monstrous 

 ideas which have for a generation been 

 poured into the receptive minds of a 

 stolid, stubborn people, unhabituated to 



