To us individuals, meanwhile, is it given, to
every one according to his talents, his inclinations, and his
position, to increase, to strengthen, and to spread national
culture. In order that in this respect, at least, Germany may
be ahead of other nations and that the national spirit,
instead of being stifled and discouraged, may be kept alive
and hopeful and ready to rise in all its might when the day of
glory dawns.
If I am not mistaken, these words of Germany's greatest poet express
accurately what the German people during the last hundred years has been
striving for--national culture and national pre-eminence in every field
of human activity. To advocate the reduction of Germany to a land of
isolated scientists, poets, artists, and educators is tantamount to a
call for the destruction of the German Nation.
KUNO FRANCKE.
Harvard University, Sept. 5, 1914.
DR. ELIOT'S SECOND LETTER
The Stout and Warlike Breed
_To the Editor of The New York Times:_
There is nothing new in the obsession of the principal European nations
that, in order to be great and successful in the world as it is, they
must possess military power available for instant aggression on weak
nations, as well as for effective defense against strong ones.
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