An Answer by Prof. Ladd
Emeritus Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy at Yale
University; Lecturer on Philosophy in India and Japan; has
received numerous decorations in Japan, where he was guest and
unofficial adviser of Prince Ito; ex-President of American
Psychological Association.
_To the Editor of The New York Times:_
It seems strange to me that a student of history with the training and
acumen of Prof. Sloane should overlook or minimize the important
distinction that must hold the chief place in enabling us to understand
the issues and appreciate the merits of the war now raging in Europe.
This distinction is that between the German people and Germanic
civilization, on the one hand, and, on the other, the present
Constitution and cherished ambitions of the German Empire under the
dominance of Prussia. The German people, by genuine processes of
self-development, have worked out for themselves a veritable spiritual
unity which manifests itself in language, laws, customs, and a large
measure of substantial uniformity in moral and religious ideals.
Germanic civilization, with its love of order, its high estimate of
education, its notable additions to science, philosophy, and art,
constitutes one of the most noble and beneficent contributions to the
welfare of mankind.
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