moral élite which has preserved the sad and lofty
privilege of perceiving at least a part of the truth,
and which must nevertheless fight and die and kill
for a faith which it doubts?

Those passionate natures that are intoxicated by
fighting or are voluntarily blinded by the necessities
of action are not troubled by these questions. For
them the enemy is a single mass; nothing else
exists for them but this, for they have to break it;
it is their function and their duty. And to each his
special duty. But if minorities do not exist for such
men, they do exist for us who, since we are not
fighting, have the liberty and the duty to see every
aspect of the case--we who form part of the eternal
minority, the minority which has been, is, and al-
ways will be eternally oppressed. It is for us to
hear and to proclaim these moral sufferings! Plenty
of others repeat or invent the jubilant echoes of the
struggle. May other voices be raised to give the
tragic accents of the fight and its sacred horror!

I shall take my examples from the enemy camp,
for several reasons: because the German cause being
from the first tainted with injustice, the sufferings
of the few who are just, and the still fewer who
have spiritual perceptions are greater there than
elsewhere; because these evidences appear openly

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