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He will note that it was a fraternisa-such are some of its leats, accepted govemment adopted by Russia. He tion, more between the men than be at the time in the face of inquiries sees the Supreme Council encourag- to invade Hungary, tween the officers and that it was which showed the absence of proofing Rumania Ireternisation between men from two Their highly educated originators which has also established a form of Philosophers who have urged that nations which had no ancient grudge must be given due credit for the ap- Government which it dislikes, and he The French Peal they made to the credulous public seca the emergence of another govern-" ellectual education has but little against each other.
ment in Hungary more bloody, more Influence on the moral sense, that, in night regard the Germans as descend-fever willing to sup on fresh horrors.
But the war Anished as all was ferocious than its predecessor but ants of the men who had swept across
cast on lines which have the approval; the words of Spencer, it is a delusion France, entered her capital and torn must and the reign of reason return-
was expected sq return of the Supreme Council. But what to imagine that an ideal humanity from her two of her provinces, but ed.or wight be forthwith produced by a per- the British had no such cause of Here was a chance for the highly strikes him most are the protests raised fect system of education. have now-ernity, and the German rank and file, edutted sitesinen, surrounded by in the countries whose governments whatever might be the feeling of their their highly educated staffs, to show form the Supreme Council against the adays but little difficulty in producing leaders and those back there in Ber what education had done for them, in policies of their respective govern- evidence in favour of their conten-in, had no cause for enmity to the evolving a higher oral sense. There ments for he notes that these pro- tion. In whatever direction they may | British: So they met in No Men's were great hopes. The invitation ex- tests come from the proletariat-the It is they who Cast their eyes they can see highly Land and all the world stared and tended to Presiden: Wilson was in less educated classes.
moral worth. ' demanded that Russia shall have the educated smresmen engaged in actions | wondered. Such a scene was not to itself a testimony to which a Macchiavelli would have con-be witnessed again. In Berlin and But as the discussion proceeded it was right of self-determination, that Hun- siderable difficulty in justifying Fur London it was seen that this would seen that so far as right or wrong con gary shall not be made a root of that ther observations might lead him to never do. How could war be conduct was concerned, the body of a real peace, nor a pesce founded on point our in additional support of his ducted it the opposing armies treated gentlemen who met at Paris might coercion. stall be formed. Intention, that" the opposition to each other as comrades? A pro- have been a gathering of our primal Meanwhile ethics are being indus- these actions came for the most part paganda of hate must be launched: ancestors engaged in settling & quarrel triously taught in the schools, moral- ists were never moce urgent on the from the mass of the people who means must be taken to make the before they came down from the trees. might be fairly estimated as mov opposing armies enemies in fact and From Russh, then entering upon a necessity of instruction, and the educ Ing on a lower intellectual plane, Inot merely in name. The propaganda course of terror, had come the slogan ation of the workers occupies a good would be to spoil a good cake to say of hate which was so earnestly enter of the night of self-determination. deal of attention. The present dis- that a high morall sense dinner accented upon on both sides had its effect President Wilson had prefaced his contents have led to the conclusion pany a high level of education. Our upon those who remained at home, but journey to Europe by fourteen points that their moral nutlook is deplorable. philosophers may be taken as unpre- an appreciably smaller effect upon which were exemplary.
nations.
But the Either education has spoiled them of
The neces- |
education. Japan
FACE UNSIGHTLY WITH PIMPLES
Judiced in their outlook and ready to those who took an actual part in the Peace Conference produced a treaty it has not been carried to the lengths acknowledge that there are indeed; war in the field. At home it was which forgot all about the fourteen which result in the fine Rover of atany among the highly educared who played for all it was worth. Atrocity points and turned self-determination moral culture typical of the Supreme show a keen feeling for right conduer. | was piled upon umocity: Fendish into a mockery. For 45 years, since -Council being reached. It is now too just as among the uneducated there stories of brutal caliousness were cir- the previous grear war in Europe. the late to draw back: the work must be are many who have bat little power culated and believed, even by quite radions had been diligently educating pressed on and that high level is el distinguishing between moral and well educated people. In England the themselves-partly to Bght, for educ, reached. Our philosopher may be moral actions. They would rest only correct view of the German was ated men make the best soldiers it left musing on the question of how their claim on the fact that men with a man with a forehead villainous has been discovered and the array far self-interest neutralises moral cut- every advantage of education showed ow and a habit of holding up his, of diplomats who met at Paris repre- ture and how far moral culture can be as little i no less pover to guide hands on the least provocation and sented the full blown flowers of the developed by their conduct by principles no righ shooting his captors on evan less. In well tilled educational field. Yet the Chronicle and wrong as those who had received Germany, the Englishman required treaty shows a lower moral plane than! no education at all. If it be pleaded quire as healthy a reputatior..
In previous documents of the kind made that the war, being itself a frank re England the reception accorded British between conquering and conquered! turn to primitive methods of settling prisoners in Germany was taken as
The inviolability of private; quarrels, has brought out alf the showing the degraded state of the property in war seemed like a per- worst in man's nature, our philoso- German nation: it might equally have manent gain in moral progress: the phers may rightly rerort that it is just been taken as a proof of the efficiency Treaty swept it aside.
such times of stress, when human of the German propaganda or hate.sity. if wars were to cease. of leavingį nature is most deeply tried, thar the Our philosopher, contemplating these no scars. seemed roo elementary an results of education should be most scenes and reflecting on the conclu- axiom to need emphasis. The treaty visible; it, is claimed by some, educa- sions to be drawn from: hem, sees tion has an effect in raising the scan the highly educated German and posite principle, leaving such bitter-
·dard of conduct. If three of the most British authorities in the backgroundness that France has ro petition Bri- highly educated nations in the work earnestly engaged in the propaganda tain and America to stand by her to are observed to engage in a conflict of hate, and in the foreground the save her from another attack which with all the ferocity of primitive German and British troops, the rank she fears the treaty will instigate. tribes, such philosophers may well and Ble-striving to live up to their Passing to affairs that have happen shrug their shoulders and ask what ferocious reputation.. Wars have to cd since the treaty, our philosopher else was to be expected,
he fought, and war is not a game but sees the work of the Supreme Coun- !. Some day perhaps a philosopher a terribly bloody business, and it cil, a body of highly educated gentle bolding such views will sit down to enmity does not exist it has to be men. He sees the Supreme Council write a moral history of the war, creared. But on which side lay the continuing a war with Russia which or rather, we should say, a history deficiency of moral sense-whether on had somehow been entered upon, on of the war on its moral side. His the propagandists in Berlin and Lon-grounds which he can only conclude: thoughts may then revert to that ex donor on the men in the field--our lie solely in a dislike for the form of sraordinary scene which was witness-philosopher feels no doubts. This ed along almost the whole of the propaganda of hate now seems like a British from on Christmas Day 1914. thing far off, something that took place Had that fraternisation between the in a dream. Handless Belgian child- opposing armies any significance? ref.. fat production from dead bodies i
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