the Ten
his golden throne, will give | Commandments and the Golden
the command to present arms. | Rule in the ordinary affairs
That is the Heaven of Young | of everyday life. I hope the
Germany. | boy scouts will practice
| truth and square dealing and
"Because only in war all the | courage and honesty, so that
virtues which militarism | when as young men they begin
regards highly are given a | taking a part not only in
chance to unfold, because | earning their own livelihood,
only in war the truly heroic | but in governing the
comes into play, for the | community, they may be able
realization of which on earth | to show in practical fashion
militarism is above all | their insistence upon the
concerned; therefore, it | great truth that the eighth
seems to us who are filled | and ninth commandments are
with the spirit of militarism | directly related to everyday
that war is a holy thing, the | life, not only between men as
holiest on earth, and this | such in their private
high estimate of war in its | relations, but between men
turn makes an essential | and the government of which
ingredient of the military | they are a part. Indeed, the
spirit. There is nothing that | boys, even while only boys,
trades-people complain of so | can have a very real effect
much as that we regard it as | upon the conduct of the
holy." | grown-up members of the
| community, for decency and
| square dealing are just as
| contagious as vice and
| corruption."

The praise of war takes many forms, and invokes many fundamental
principles--ethical, aesthetic, biological, sociological. From
Leibnitz' saying that perpetual peace is a motto fit only for a
graveyard to Moltke's that peace is only a dream and not even a
beautiful dream, there is a long list of defenses of war. This
philosophy of war is by no means peculiarly German, although German
writers seem to have been the most ardent apologists of war in recent
times. Treitschke, Schmitz (29), Scheler (77), Nusbaum (86), Arndt,
Steinmetz, Lasson, Engelbrecht, Schoonmaker, all sing the praises of
war as the most glorious work of man, or