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No. 36

Vou. IV. SATURDAY, May 8, 1915.

Dr. Charles W. Eliot, emeritus president of Harvard univer-

sity, and one of the most authoritative publicistsin America, voices

“ the concensus of opinion in the United States when he says, in the

course of an article on national efficiency as developed under free
fovernments:

_ objects, and was qualified by much domestic fr eedom, and the
‘policy of free trade. Being an island, Great Britain tried to rule
the seas,’in order that her indispensible supplies of food and raw
materials might never be cut off. Her Continental imitators have
not had her domestic freedom, her affiliated free common wealths,
"her free trade, or her Strong reason for possession of the oceans;
but they have had, and some of them still have, the imperialistic
fever in its hottest form,
“If, then, we must look for the causes of this unprecedented
- €onvulsion in these deep- rooted aspirations and ambitions, what
shall we say about: the slow but steady growth of these sentiments
in Germany? There are those who ascribe this war to the German
"Emperor or cabinet, or to some particular German teachers or
authors, or to the growth of a strong, united military caste in
Germany. All these influences doubtless contributed in ‘some
measure to the outbreak. But the real cause of the successive
military aggressions on the part - -of Germany since’1864 lies in ‘the
gradual prevalence throughout that nation, and particularly i in the
educated classes, of an exaggerated estimate of the bodily and
spiritual merits of the German people, and of a firm belief that the
__ national greatness and the progress of characteristie German
civilization were ‘to be -attained through the development of the
most tremendous national. force that could possibly be contrived
and brought into being, and through the gratification of the intense
German desire for domination in Europe, and eventually i in the

world.’?
After elaborating his theory that efficiency develops best under

free goverments, such as those of France and Britain, Dr, Biot
saya in conclusion:

“The present war in Europe is going to put: to a supreme
military test. this theory concerning | the surest sources of national
efficiency. The war ought to demonstrate i it the end that German
efficiency in war is not so great as that of England and Franeé,- if
we include in the definition of | tnilitary efficiency the management
of the supporting industries, and skill in summoning and applying
_, financial resources, as wellas the management of the troops in
actual fighting. The: war should demonstrate that a-volunteer

he has more personal initiative, more power of independent action,
and more sense of individual responsibility; -The firstayear of the
war ought to prove that large and effective armies can be put into
the field - after a training of only a few months, if the volunteer
recruits come from the occupations which call for intelligence and
co-operative goodwill, and are inspired. by. ethical ‘motives whieh
strongly appeal to them as individuals. “The _war ought also to
" prove that the freer'a people ‘are, and the more accustomed to the
exercise of self-controlled. liberty, the more waymly and resolutely
they will respond to the éalls on their courage, endurance, and love
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will further in Europe the cause of essential freedom—the freedom
which can be developed under any constitutional form of govern-
‘ment, but. cannot be developed under an. autocratic form, : There-
' fore, we look forward with hope to a diminution. j in’ Europe of the],
-autocratic forms and a increase of the constitutional’ forms, as well

sudden invasion. ~ This: better security implies: a-federal council of:
a few. powerful states, the reduction of... ‘National: armanienta, and
“the creation of a: a federal fores competent: to:i ‘itnpose, ‘péace,"*. 4

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“British imperialism had sound. commercial and industrial J.

‘soldier is, on the whole, more effective .than a conscript, ‘because |.

" “The only issue of the war that can- possibly be satisfactory tol

‘the freer nations of Europe, or to Americans, is an-isaue which |: °° wie
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