They seem to think that to have put the critics right about a few lines in Sophocles, or to have discovered a new chemical dye, dispenses the German Superman from being bound to humanity, truthfulness, and honor.  Charge them with the mutilation of little girls and the violation of nuns in Belgium, and they reply:  Yes! but think of Kant and Hegel!  It is treason to philosophy, they say, that a man who has translated Schopenhauer should condemn Germans for burning Malines and making captive women a screen for troops in battle.  Kultur, it seems, has its own “higher law,” which its professors expound to the decadent nations of Europe.

Let us hold no parley with these arrogant sophists.  Let all intellectual commerce be suspended until these official professors have unlearned the infernal code of “military necessity” and “world policy” which, to the indignation of the civilized world, they are ordered by the Vicegerent of God at Potsdam to teach to the great Teutonic Super-race.  Yours, &c.,

FREDERIC HARRISON.

Bath, Oct. 29.

The Reply From France

By M. Yves Guyot and Prof.  Bellet.

The following is the text of an open lettert addressed by M. Yves Guyot, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal des Economistes, and M. Bellet, Professor at the Schools of Political Science and Commercial Studies, to Prof.  Brentano of the University of Munich, the communication being a reply to the recent German Appeal to Civilized Nations on the subject of the war: 

PARIS, Oct. 15, 1914.

To Prof.  Brentano of the University of Munich: 

Very Learned Professor and Colleague:  On reading the Appeal to Civilized Nations, (among which France is evidently not included,) which has just been sent forth by ninety-three persons declaring themselves to be representatives of German science and art, we were not surprised to find Prof.  Schmoller’s signature.  He had already shown his hatred for France by refusing to assist at the gatherings organized, a little more than two years ago, to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Paris Society of Political Economy, (gatherings at which we were happy to enjoy your presence and that of your colleague, Mr. Lotz.) In his Rector’s speech at the Berlin University, in 1897, he declared that German science had no other object than to celebrate the imperial messages of 1880 and 1890; and he pointed out that every disciple of Adam Smith who was not willing to make it a servant of that policy “should resign his seat.”  But we felt painful surprise when, at the foot of the said factum, we found your name side by side with his.