of the Schopenhauer
Society at Duesseldorf in June, 1915. He allows that the state has a
right to wage a war of defence, but _not to force anyone to serve in the
army_. Schopenhauer, he tells us, "esteems sympathy with all that lives
and suffers more highly than love for the Fatherland.... During a war a
noble man desires such an issue as may be most beneficial to the whole
world.... With all our readiness to recognise the merit of patriotic
self-denial, we, the admirers of Schopenhauer, have to warn our
compatriots, especially during a war, of the danger of patriotism
degenerating into injustice, or even hatred and malicious joy at the
misfortune of other nations.... Not one of the European peoples can be
suppressed without heavy loss to the whole world, and not one has the
right to force its special character on the others." (_International
Review_, September, 1915.)

WAR LITERATURE.

It is the elderly gentlemen on both sides who exude vitriol. It is a
pity that they are so much in evidence. But even some of them retain
their sanity. The following is from the _Cambridge Magazine_ of May 15,
1915:

Those who, at the beginning of the war, were induced by the
Press to wonder whether any elderly German professor had
retained his mental equilibrium will now be disposed to wonder
whether the proportion of serious cases is after all larger
there than here. At any rate the Schopenhauer Society is a very
important learned body, and Prof. Deussen, of Kiel, is one of
the most distinguished of German scholars. And this is how he
writes in the fourth year book of the Schopenhauer
Society--apparently in terms of contempt for a loquacious
minority (the translation is taken from the April number of the
_Open Court_, and the italics are ours, especially the
concluding shot at the Lady Patriot):

"'Not to my contemporaries,' says Schopenhauer, 'not to my
countrymen, but to humanity do I commit my work which is now
completed, in the confidence that it will not be without value
to the race. Science, and more than every other science,
philosophy is international.' ... Foolish, very foolish,
therefore is the conduct of _certain German professors_ who have
renounced their foreign honours and titles. And what shall we
say of a member of our society who demanded that citizens of
those states which are at war with us should be excluded from
the Sc