Her scientific ideals are of the
twentieth century. Her political ideals hark back to the sixteenth. Her
rulers have made her the most superb fighting machine in a world which
is soul-weary of fighting. For a nation in shining armor the civilized
World has no place. It will not worship them, it will not obey them. It
will not respect those who either worship or obey. It finds no people
good enough to rule other people against their will.
A great nation which its own people do not control is a nation without a
Government. It is a derelict on the international sea. It is a danger to
its neighbors, a greater danger to itself. Of all the many issues, good
or bad, which may come from this war, none is more important than this,
that the German people should take possession of Germany.
DAVID STARR JORDAN.
Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 19, 1914.
Might or Right
By John Grier Hibben.
President of Princeton University; author of works on logic
and philosophy.
_The address printed below was delivered by President Hibben at the
opening of the Laymen's Efficiency Convention in New York City, Oct.
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