together in unison. The test is good. Let us be
thankful. Those who desired to separate us have
joined our hands.

R. R.

December 31, 1914.

A number of literary and scientific men at Barce-
lona, as far removed from amorphous international-
ism on the one hand as from mere parochialism on
the other, have banded themselves together to affirm
their unchangeable belief in the moral unity of
Europe, and to further this belief as far as the
suffocating conditions resulting from the present
tragic circumstances permit.

We set out from the principle that the terrible
war which today is rending the heart of this Europe
of ours is, by implication, a Civil War.

A civil war does not exactly mean an unjust war;
still, it call only be justified by a conflict between
great ideals, and if we desire the triumph of one
or the other of these ideals, it must be for the sake
of the entire European Commonwealth and its gen-
eral well-being. None of the belligerents, therefore,
can be allowed to aim at the complete destruction

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