But I will make no comparisons between the two
nations. For the present the essential thing is to
show that even in Germany there are certain finer
minds who are fighting against the spirit which we
hate--the spirit of grasping imperialism and in-
human pride, of military caste and the megalomania
of pedants. They are but a minority--we have no
illusions about that--and we ought to redouble our
efforts on that account to vanquish the common
enemy. Why then should we trouble to make these
generous but feeble voices heard? Because their
merit is the greater for being so little heeded; be-
cause it is the duty of those who are fighting for
justice to render justice in their turn to all those
men, even when they dwell in a country in which
the state represents the violation of right by
Faustrecht, who are defending with us the spirit of
liberty.

Journal de Genève, April 19, 1915.

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