us to its grave all the higher culture of our part of the world, whose defenders we were called to be; for neither with Russia nor against Russia will Great Britain be able longer to maintain that culture in Europe.  Should we conquer—­and victory is for us something more than mere hope—­then shall we feel ourselves responsible, as formerly, for this culture, for the learning and the peace of Europe, and shall put from us any idea of setting up a hegemony in Europe.  We shall stand by the one who, together in fraternal union with us, will create and maintain such a peaceful Europe.

For the continuation of your cordial attitude toward me I am personally grateful.  I would not unnecessarily sever the bond which holds me to the upright Christians and the learning of your country, but at the present moment this bond has no value for me.

PROF.  VON HARNACK.

P.S.—­It is in your power now to wage a battle which would be of honor to you.  As a fourth great power arrayed against Germany, the lying international press has raised itself up, flooded the world with lies about our splendid and upright army, and slandered everything that is German.  We have been almost entirely cut off from any possibility of protecting ourselves against this “beast of the pit.”  Do not believe the lies, and spread abroad the truth about us.  We are today no different than Carlyle pictured us to you.  HARNACK.

The Causes of the War

By Theodore Niemeyer

Theodore Niemeyer, Kaiser Wilhelm Exchange Professor at Columbia University for 1914-15, and well-known Professor of Kiel University, has addressed the following letter to the editor of The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung.

KIEL, 14th August, 1914.

To the Editor of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung: 

Dear Sir:  English papers publish a telegram from Mr. Andrew Carnegie, in which the view is expressed that the German Emperor, “in declining to take part In the peace conference proposed by Sir Edward Grey, an advocate of peace,” proved unfaithful to that love of peace which he has shown during the past twenty-five years—­that he, on the contrary, has taken up the role of a disturber of the peace of Europe.

To the best of my knowledge, the German press has only referred to this telegram with the simple remark that intelligence of the real state of affairs has evidently not yet reached the ears of the sender of the telegram.

This attitude of the German press is in conformity with its firm consciousness of the justice of its cause and its confidence in the ultimate triumph of truth.  Both in this consciousness and in this confidence I will not be surpassed by any one, but to observe silence in the face of such accusations is beyond my power.  To allow such a misconstruction to pass unchallenged through the world seems to me (and doubtless to many thousands besides me) unbearable.