is drained of her mother’s milk.  There is a massacre of innocents by poisonous microbes.  So why be illogical and pander to false sentiment?  Why not sink the Lusitania and set the waves afloat with the little corpses of children and the beauty of dead women?  It is but one more incident of horror in a war which is all horror.  Its logic is unanswerable in the Euclid of Hell. ...  It is war, and when millions of men set out to kill each other, to strangle the enemy’s industries, to ruin, starve, and annihilate him, so that the women may not breed more children, and so that the children shall perish of wide-spread epidemics, then a few laws of chivalry, a little pity here and there, the recognition of a Hague Treaty, are but foolishness, and the weak jugglings of men who try to soothe their conscience with a few drugged tabloids.  That at least is the philosophy of the German war lords, and granted the premises that war may be waged by one people against another it seems to me sound and flawless in its abomination.

Germany thrust this thing upon Europe deliberately and after careful preparation.  Upon the heads of her diplomats and princes are the blood and the guilt of it, and they stand before the world as murderers with red hands and bloodshot eyes, and souls as black as hell.  In this war of self-defence we are justified and need no special pleading to proclaim our cause.  We did not want this war, and we went to the extreme limit of patience to avoid it.  But if there is to be any hope for humanity we must go deeper into the truth than the mere analysis of White Papers and Yellow Papers with diplomatic correspondence.  We must ask ourselves whether in England, France, or Russia, “the defenders of modern civilization,” there was any sincerity of belief in the ideals and faith for which civilization stands.  Did the leaders of modern thought do anything with their genius or their knowledge to break down old frontiers of hatred, to enlighten the ignorance between one nation and another, or to put such power into the hands of peoples that they might have strength to resist the tyranny of military castes and of military ideals?  Have not our politicians and our teachers, with few exceptions, used all their influence to foster dark old superstitions which lurk in such good words as those of patriotism and honour, to keep the people blind so that they might not see the shining light of liberty, and to adulterate the doctrine of Christ which most of them profess, by a gospel of international jealousy based upon trade interests and commercial greed?

The military castes have been supported in Europe by putting the spell of old traditions upon simple peoples.  The Christian Churches have bolstered them up and failed utterly to preach the words of peace because in the heart of the priest there is the patriot, so that every Christian nation claims God as a national asset leading its battalions.  There will be no hope of peace until the peoples of the