nations, each of which is the judge in its own
cause. Although I firmly believe that the adoption of
passive instead of active resistance would be good if a
nation could be convinced of its goodness, yet it is rather
to the ultimate creation of a strong central authority that
I should look for the ending of war. But war will end only
after a great labor has been performed in altering men's
moral ideals, directing them to the good of all mankind, and
not only of the separate nations into which men happen to
have been born.

"Good Natured Germany"

The leading article in the June issue of the Sueddeutsche Monatshefte
(Munich) is by Dr. George Grupp, one of Germany's most able scholars,
and is entitled, "Never Can Germany be Overcome if She be United." Dr.
Grupp finds evidences for this assertion all through history, and
quotes some of the earliest commentators and historians to this
effect:

As early as 1487 Felix Fabri, a Dominican of Ulm wrote: "Si
Germani essent ubique concordes, totum orbem domarent." (If
the Germans were united they would conquer the whole world.)

The sentence is an echo of the fiery address which one
Aeneas Silvius, later to become pope, delivered to the
German princes after the fall of Constantinople, and from
which Felix Fabri himself gives a quotation....

To Germany alone the Greeks looked for any considerable
help. An evidence of this is the beautiful and often quoted
remark of the Athenian Laonikos Chalkokondylas: "If the
Germans were united and the princes would obey, they would
be unconquerable and the strongest of all mortals."

We encounter similar statements very frequently, both
earlier and later, from the Roman courtier Dietrich von
Nieheim and from the humanists, from the Alsatian Wimpheling
and Sebastian Brant, from the Swabian Nauclerus and the
Frank Pirckheimer. "What could Germany be," they cry, "if
she would only make use of her own strength, exploit her own
resources for herself! No people on earth could offer her
resistance!"

Dr. Grupp claims that Germany's lack of unity has resulted only from
her rule of goodwill toward all, within her borders as well as
without.

It never occurred to the Germans as to other peoples to
disturb the peaceful development of their neighbors. They
allowed mighty powers to bu