applause.] France has made sacrifices for the freedom of other
lands than her own. Can you name a single country in the world for the
freedom of which modern Prussia has ever sacrificed a single life?
["No!"] By the test of our faith, the highest standard of civilization
is the readiness to sacrifice for others. [Applause.]

German "Civilization."

I will not say a single word in disparagement of the German people. They
are a great people, and have great qualities of head and hand
and heart. I believe, in spite of recent events, that there is as great
a store of kindliness in the German peasant as in any peasant in the
world; but he has been drilled into a false idea of civilization. It is
efficient, it is capable; but it is a hard civilization; it is a selfish
civilization; it is a material civilization. They cannot comprehend the
action of Britain at the present moment; they say so. They say, "France
we can understand; she is out for vengeance; she is out for
territory--Alsace and Lorraine." [Applause.] They say they can
understand Russia; she is fighting for mastery--she wants Galicia. They
can understand you fighting for vengeance--they can understand you
fighting for mastery--they can understand you fighting for greed of
territory; but they cannot understand a great empire pledging its
resources, pledging its might, pledging the lives of its children,
pledging its very existence, to protect a little nation that seeks to
defend herself. [Applause.] God made man in His own image, high of
purpose, in the region of the spirit; German civilization would recreate
him in the image of a Diesel machine--precise, accurate, powerful, but
with no room for soul to operate. ["Hear, hear!"]

A Philosophy of Blood and Iron.

Have you read the Kaiser's speeches? If you have not a copy I advise you
to buy one; they will soon be out of print, and you will not have many
more of the same sort. [Laughter and applause.] They are full of the
glitter and bluster of German militarism--"mailed fist," and "shining
armor." Poor old mailed fist! Its knuckles are getting a little bruised.
Poor shining armor! The shine is being knocked out of it. [Applause.]
There is the same swagger and boastfulness running through the whole of
the speeches. The extract which was given in The British Weekly this
week is a very remarkable product as an illustration of the spirit we
have to fight. It is the Kaiser's speech to his soldiers on the way to
the fr