all quarreling back and forth and
pulling against one another as unfriendly strangers.

Germany is giving--has given--one great lesson to them all and
to us Americans at home. And that is, IN UNION THERE IS
STRENGTH.

After this war the tremendous question before the world will be:

_How are we going to live with the Germans?--how get on with
them?_

The only true and gracious solution I can see is--_To associate
and study together when young_! Would not you--would not
everyone--agree that this interchange in education, which would
not be very troublesome or expensive, is a true manner in which
to remove from the German make-up its savage, destructive animus
toward mankind? In order really to change a race, the work must
be done from the inside outward. And this means _some_ form of
education, not merely victories, edicts, Leagues.

Let or make the Teutons be associated with gentler cultures than
their own. What if it does take a hundred, two hundred, years!
What is that compared with having the German problem and menace
unsolved in the future as in the past?

Such young German missionaries year after year, as I have
indicated, would be bringing back something of sweetness and
light to their stubborn, irascible folk. The powerful and
exacerbated bias of this folk toward the _echt Deutsch_ would be
neutralized and mollified under the contact of its youths with
dispositions making for kindliness and courtesy. Confessedly the
stoutest race prejudices lie with those who have never stepped
outside their own boundaries.

It is true this plan, in a small way, was tried under the
exchange of professors scheme. But the Kaiser won out in that
because his professors were too old and, it develops, were
simply his emissaries with hostile inclinations and intent. It
would appear that most of the young Americans who are partly
educated in Germany are pro-German. Had they gone to England or
France, they would be pro-British or pro-French.

It is now being shown that the German's education or instruction
does not do away with the Hun element in him. The logical thing,
then, is to try foreign education on him. He needs to learn in
other countries, and to _live out_, their meanings of good faith
and a give-and-take, manly spirit. For he at present considers
it right to