The American Verdict On the War a Reply to the Appeal to the Civilized World of
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Is not the wild dream of Pan-Germanism at the bottom of this great crime? Is there not a higher destiny, to be bom, perhaps, out of this war, that humanity is greater than any race, and that governments in conflict with that destiny must perish? Then, again, your military class, desiring to hold the government in their own hands, are promulgating the idea that the common people of Germany are incapable' of what English and Americans call self-government. "No people, *' says your General von Ber...nhardi, "is so unfitted as the Ger- mans to direct their own destinies. " Well, I cannot help wondering what the reckoning will be between the German people and their rulers when this war is over. There is a 23 fine line in Bulwer's play, "Richelieu, " which fits this case : "Oh, if men will play dark sorcery with the heart of man, let them who raise the spell beware the fiend !" These war dreams, this German solidarity, this Pan- Germanism, this mendacious diplomacy, this policy of being armed to the teeth, this false principle of the state above the individual, the still more fallacious sentiment of Ger- many above humanity, the contempt of your military rulers for human life, their eager wish to destroy the whole body of property which marks the progress of mankind — all this has made the world afraid of you.
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