other language. The most popular
song to-day in Germany is the "Hymn of Hate," by Ernest Lissauer, whom,
it is reported, the Kaiser has decorated for this--the only real German
literature from the war. It is a hymn and chant, and has rhythm, hiss,
and fight in it. It runs to the sentiment,--

"French and Russian, they matter not,
A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot,"

but ends,--

"We love as one, we hate as one;
We have one foe, and one alone--
ENGLAND!"

And when that last line and that last word burst from thousands of
German throats, as in the crowded cafes of Berlin, it is the fullest
German damn that can find expression in German consonants. I believe
the Prussians of Berlin would be as pleased to megaphone that line from
Calais to Dover as they would be to throw their first shell across the
English Channel. But if enforced international law did not permit them
to strive for that shot as the expression of their passion, they would
soon forget their hot hate and put their shoulder again beneath the
progress of the world.

Man has come up from the dug-out or the cave where in primordial
condition he won his food by his own hands from the uncut forests and
the unfarmed waters. As family policeman he had no incentive to
accumulations of food, clothing, or luxuries. These involved added
police responsibilities and enlarged the temptations of his neighbors,
both men and animals.

Later, his family becomes a tribe. In combination the duties of
protection for the common good take on a larger view. The village, the
walled city and the armed state naturally follow. Each stage of
communal growth reduces the number of men set apart for defence or
police duty. There is a corresponding increase in the common store of
human possessions and human happinesses.

From states grow nations, then empires, until but a small fraction of
the people is engaged in any way in aggressive or defensive warfare, or
even police work or the determination or enforcement of laws of justice
as between individuals, cities, states, or communities of any sort.

The individual club at the mouth of the cave protecting the family has
become for England a surrounding line of steel ships; for the United
States, of 100,000,000 people, a mere outline of a military defensive
organization, to be filled in when needed. But for a few communities
in the world that individual club has become a national armory, with
human e