s hope to inspire courage by insulting the enemy,
they are mistaken--we refuse such stimulants. We dare to
maintain our opinion that the humblest volunteer of the enemy,
who, from an unreasoned but exalted sentiment of patriotism,
fires upon us from an ambush, knowing well what he risks, is
much superior to those journalists who profit by the public
feeling of the day, and under cover of high-sounding words of
patriotism do not fight the enemy, but spit on him.

I am reminded of words used by one of my Swiss friends: "As soon as
soldiers must get their fighting force from suggestions of puerile
besmirching of the enemy, then war indeed becomes intolerably base."

Annette Kolb, daughter of a German father and a French mother, had the
courage to proclaim openly in a public lecture at Dresden that _she was
faithful to both sides_, and to express her regret that Germany should
fail to understand France. After all, German intolerance must have its
limits for such a bold speech to be possible.

Wilhelm Herzog in the Munich _Forum_ has attacked the intellectual
fire-eaters, the patriots who insult other peoples and the Chauvinists
generally. He defends France, the French army and French civilisation,
against the brilliant novelist, Thomas Mann. Above all does he condemn
the intellectual babble: "The wrong that these privy councillors and
professors have done us with their 'Aufklaerungsarbeit' can hardly be
measured. They have isolated themselves from humanity by their inability
to realise the feelings of others."

Mr. Lowes Dickinson has called attention in the _Hibbert_ of October,
1915, to a pamphlet by Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, entitled
"Deutschlands Jugend und der Weltkrieg." The same pamphlet is quoted in
_The Ethical Movement_ of the same date. Here are some extracts:

"Hate disorganises, love disciplines. Fill yourselves with
deepest sympathy for all who suffer in war, whose hearts are
crushed, whose bodies are broken, whose homes are burned ...
and win a peace which shall make the recurrence of such things
for ever impossible. Such a purification from the passion of
hate is often easier on the field than at home. Those who remain
behind have an abstract enemy in view. The soldier sees living
men who suffer and die like himself." It will startle the
English reader to find Dr. Foerster pleading earnestly that the
English soldier is not respons