“It is not our duty (duty is always a good catchword in German appeal) to hate individual Englishmen, such as Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Asquith and Mr. Lloyd George.  No, we must go far beyond that.  We must hate the very essence of everything English.  We must hate the very soul of England.  An abysmal gulf yawns between the two nations which can never, and must never, be bridged over.  We need borrow Kultur from no nation on earth, for we ourselves have developed the highest Kultur in the world.”

The professor continued in this strain for an hour and a half, and concluded with the rather striking statements that hatred is the greatest force in the world to overcome tremendous obstacles, and that either one must hate or one must fear.

The moral is, of course, obvious.  Nobody wishes to be a coward, therefore the only alternative is to hate.  Therefore, hate England!

I watched the audience during the lecture and did not fail to note the close attention shown the professor and the constant nods and sighs of assent of those about me.  I was not, however, prepared for the wild tumult of applause at the finish.  Indeed the admiring throng rushed to the stage to shower him with admiration.

“Das war aber zu schon!” sighed a dowager near me.

“Ja, ja, wunderbar.  Ein Berliner Professor!” And the student with Schmissen (sabre cuts) across his close-cropped head smacked his lips with, satisfaction over the words much as he might have done over his Stein at the Furstenhof.

I investigated Professor Sombart and learned from authority which is beyond question that he was an out and out Government agent foisted on to the University of Berlin against the wishes of its faculty.

The name of Professor Joseph Kohler is known, all over the world to men who have the slightest acquaintance with German jurisprudence.  His literary output has been enormous and he has unquestionably made many valuable contributions to legal science.  Even he, however, cannot do the impossible, and his “Not kennt kein Gebot” (Necessity knows no law), an attempt in the summer of 1915 to justify the German invasion of Belgium, makes Germany’s case on this particular point appear worse than ever.

The Empire of Rome and the Empire of Napoleon worked upon the principle that necessity knows no law.  Why should not the Empire of William II.?  That is the introductory theme.  The reader then wades through page after page of classical philosophy, biblical philosophy, and modern German philosophy which support the theory that a sin may not always be a sin.  One may steal, for example, if by so doing a life he saved.  It naturally follows from this that when a nation is confronted by a problem which involves its very existence it may do anything which may work to its advantage.  Thus Germany did right in attacking the little country she had solemnly sworn to defend, and history will later prove that the real barbarians of the war are the Americans, since they are so abjectly ignorant as to call the Germans barbarians for acting as they did.  So argues Joseph Kohler, who certainly ranks among the first half-dozen professors of Germany.