pathies, etc., are plastic and pliable.
As long as the young Germans are kept home--never sent abroad
unless as spies in some form--the Teutons will remain Huns.

Granted that they can't help it if they are born with the Hun
strain in their blood which their education or instruction not
only preserves but enrages. Admit that they want any barbarism
eliminated from their veins. That would be an important point
over which our world should hold out to them the glad hand....

Don't be offended, but the best thing that I learned in college
was to throw well from left field. At any rate it saved my life,
I suppose, at Aix. And I've grown wonderfully fond of pepper. It
braces a chap for this Iceland wind that howls down upon us at
times. We call baseball and football a part of education. Good,
brave things. The Germans don't have them because they have only
"instruction."

From what I observed beyond the Rhine, education is a growth in
free and liberal countries. As we are seeing in the war, German
instruction turns out experts, but also intellectual monsters
and scientific fiends--instructed heathens....

Strange to say, I don't believe I could have stood this
existence here if my system had not got a good cleansing out
when I was sick. I am all the time thinking about the Huns. And
it is strictly necessary hereabouts.

CHAPTER XLIII

THE TEUTON PROBLEM. A SOLUTION

_Flanders, a Mudhole, February, 1915._

... Is not my old friend Anderson's plan the only natural,
practical, efficient method by which to humanize their barbarous
instincts? Assuming that they will be defeated, as they _must_
be, the Anderson project, as you see, is that a permanent
arrangement must be offered them, and if necessary enforced upon
them, whereby a multitude of young German men and women shall be
sent yearly to foreign democratic lands to _live_ and be
educated there for a period. By attractive scholarships, by
pecuniary inducements or by any of a number of programmes, young
Germans can be tempted to this step. In living and studying,
before middle age, under free and liberal conditions, they will
begin looking at foreigners in a friendly, or what we should
call a Christian, manner. After awhile, after generations
perhaps, this leaven will work in the thick, tough, sour Teuton
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