The sun

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earth could have checked them, that

they had had a retrogression, a rever

sion of type, JUBt as this animal had In

Its own time. It became overspcclallzed.

obsessed with Its own power, its normal

functions had to pay for Its special

ones and In the end It disappeared from

the face of the earth.

.Not w In Anlmul or Haitian

History.

"This explanation of a phenomenon

which I am applying to the Germans Is

not new In history. Udward Qulnet In

hLs work 'Creation1 has pointed out

numerous examples of the wme truth.

The old Roman had a saying: "Quern

deus vult perdere, prlus dementat.' Too

much power, madness for aggrandize

ment, destroyed the Greeks, as It later

destroyed the Ronnus, as It Is to-day

destroying the Germans.

"In reflecting on these facts I realized

that this war had carried us back to the

time of the thieving, women murdering

Pharaohs, that It was for the Germans

a colossal looting enterprise.

"At tlrst these acts were laid at the

door of the Prussian Imperial and mili

tary system. Hut there arc many men

In Germany of cultivated tastes, artists,

savants, writers, men of thought and of

science, cirtalnly enough good people to

understand and rovolt at this kind uf

warfare. Unhappily, scarcely a voice

among them has been raised against

the war of piracy and of assassination

of the Innocent, the burning of libraries,

the shelling of churches. On the con

trary we have the phenomenon of these

men preaching the doctrine that war and

'Kultur' arc one, Thetefore we must

blame the whole people.

"I have visited the United States and

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

The sun. (1915). New York [N.Y.], 1915-06-27. Haiti in the American Press. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1915-06-27/ed-1/?sp=2

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: The sun, 1915-06-27.