OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 162, 15 December 1914, Page 6

OTHER MEN'S MINDS.

THE GERMAN THEORY. At bottom, when we look into it, wa see that the German theory is based upon the tacit assumption that Germany is the only nation which has the will and tho power to convert herself into a consummate fighting machine, and that, therefore, the world is ono day destined to lie prostrate at her feet.—Mr William (.Archer. THE AMUSING TRUTH. I lore reading encyclopaedias; and I find they are even more amusing when they are probably telling the truth than when they are manifestly telling lies.— Mr. G. K. Chesterton. WORKMEN PATRIOTS. When vorkuien, to whom appeals aro now being directed, respond and. join the army, they sacrifice, in nearly every case, all they possess—all. That so many of them have already done this ungrudgingly is a noble tribute to their class.— Mr A. R. Orage. AT BERLIN. . It was from Berlin that the disturbiag influence came, and it is at Berlin tha|r peace will have to be made.—'Mr Austen Chamberlain. THE DOCTRINE OF TRIETSCFIKE. He (Treitschoke) came to think of ruthless, aggressive war as the noblest of national functions, and tho instrument by which Germany wa» predestined to impose her incomparable oulture upon a temporarily recalcitrant but ultimately grateful world. This is no caricature of his doctrine. He clothes its wickedness in all sorts of fine phrases, and would have us understand that, for all nonGerman peoples, to bo ruined by Germany is tho first step to moral and intellectual regeneration.—Mr William Anfc«r. THE RUSSIAN QUALITY. Russia's normal work for generation! to come will bo in healing her own wounds and building up her internal prosperity. The remote future must look to itself. For the present, if really this war is her war of liberation, if in Russia, as in Britain, the best elements of tho nation can keep control over events, I believe that wo can look to Russia in our hour of victory for that quality which will bo needed most, some real religious gentleness, some "plain, heroic magnitude of mind." —Dr Gilbert Murray. OUR CAUSE. The game is a game worth winning, and, under Providence, we mean to win it. Our cause is a just cause, and it is the cause not only of England, but of civilisation and humanity.—Lord Lansdowne. THANKS TO THE KAISER. ITlia German Emperor has done Great .Britain a signal service—ho has joined , all classes in Great Britain and Ireland. He has created a rally unexampled in human history.—Bishop Welldon. j fc* 5 I NO PEACE WITH MILITARISM. "" Peace with the GergiaWpeople might be arranged in goo4"time, but peace with Prussian militarism! There will be no peace short of the grave with that violent tyranny.—Mr. Churchill. PRUSSIAN, NOT GERMAN. I distinguish most broadly and strongly between Prussia and the rest of Germany. Tli is policy of aggression and of domination is entirely Prussian, and is not German. It is not Saxon; it is not . Hanoverian; it does not come from Wurtcmberg or Baden or Bavaria. It is entirely, in its inception, and in its history, Prussian and nothing else.'—Lord Roseberv. THE GERMAN BULLY. The sword must not lie put back in its scabbard until the German bully has been taught that what he termed a "scrap of paper" is something more, and until the dignity of Belgium has been restored to its former position.—Sir Wilfrid Laurier.