last two months, have arrived in Geneva from every
country, that the ardor of patriotic faith is every-
where the same, and that each of the nations en-
gaged in this mighty struggle believes itself to be
the champion of liberty against barbarism. But
liberty and barbarism do not mean the same thing
to both sides.

Barbarous despotism, the worst enemy to liberty,
is exemplified for us Frenchmen, Englishmen, men
of the West, in Prussian Imperialism; and I venture
to think that the register of its methods is plainly
set forth in the devastated route from Liége to
Senlis, passing by way of Louvain, Malines, and
Rheims. For Germany, the monster ("Ungeheuer,"
as the aged Wundt calls it), which threatens civili-
zation is Russia, and the bitterest reproach which
the Germans hurl against France is our alliance with
the Empire of the Czar. I have received many let-
ters reproaching us with this. In the Munich re-
view, Das Forum, I read only yesterday an article
by Wilhelm Herzog challenging me to explain my
position with regard to Russia. Let us consider the
question, then. I ask nothing better. By this means
we shall be able to weigh the German danger and
the Russian danger in the balance, and thus show

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