The Project Gutenberg eBook, Right Above Race, by Otto Hermann Kahn

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: Right Above Race

Author: Otto Hermann Kahn

Release Date: November 20, 2009 [eBook #30507]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RIGHT ABOVE RACE***

E-text prepared by Ritu Aggarwal and the Project Gutenberg Online
Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images
generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries
(http://www.archive.org/details/americana)

Note: Images of the original pages are available through
Internet Archive/American Libraries. See
http://www.archive.org/details/rightaboverace00kahn

Transcriber's note:

Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).

Underlined text is enclosed by pound signs (#underlined#).

The Preface, the Foreword and the Publishers' Explanatory
Note for Letter To A German were in italics in the original.

Fractions are denoted using hyphen and forward slash. For
example, 4-1/2 indicates four and a half.

An additional transcriber's note is at the end of the book.

RIGHT ABOVE RACE

by

OTTO H. KAHN

"We will not permit the blood in our veins to drown the
conscience in our breast. We will heed the call of honour
beyond the call of race."

Hodder and Stoughton
London New York Toronto
MCMXVIII

PREFACE

This is one of the best books that has appeared about the war. It
shows conclusively why the United States must put this war through to
a finish, and why every good American and every believer in liberty
and civilization must be heart and soul against Germany. The fact that
Mr. Kahn himself is of German origin emphasizes the contention which
every good American should make, namely, that the Americans who are in
whole or in part of German blood should eagerly take the front places
in this war for Americanism against the attempt of the Prussianized
Germany of the Hohenzollerns to establish a world tyranny.

Not only is the book an admirable plea for Americanism and for putting
the war through, but it is als