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January, 1919) Colby College Colby College Digital Commons @ Colby The oC lbiana College Archives: Colbiana Collection 1-1919 The olC biana vol. 7 no. 1 (January, 1919) Colby College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/thecolbiana Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Colby College, "The oC lbiana vol. 7 no. 1 (January, 1919)" (1919). The Colbiana. 21. https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/thecolbiana/21 This Journal is brought to you for free and open access by the College Archives: Colbiana Collection at Digital Commons @ Colby. It has been accepted for inclusion in The oC lbiana by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Colby. For more information, please contact [email protected]. / ? 'C The Colbiana January Number 1919 C^A , , - K A . 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Tinta, Doris Gower................................................................. 7 Rain Drops, Catherine Bates.................................................. 9 Scars, Madge Tooker............................................................. 9 With the Editor ..................................................................... 11 The Minister’s Son, Mira Dolley............................................ 12 When the Boys Come Home.................................................... 14 Editorials ................................................................................ 15 College News ....................................................... 15 Y. W. C. A. N otes........................................................................18 News from the Alumnae......................................................... 18 5717 9 jq >ao THE COLBIANA Volume 7 JANUARY, 1919 Number 1 The Spirit of France. been aptly called the German Trinity, and it is to them that the German spirit 0 lovely France, who now so long hath does homage. It is they who are rever­ seen enced as the great moral and religious irim-visaged war lay waste thy fields— teachers of the New Germany. thy soil Nietzsche, the prophet of ruthlessness, Hallowed with blood of thy brave man­ was the son of a clergyman. His was a hood slain, brilliant mind and early he showed gen­ Thy womanhood and motherhood that, ius. Under the influence of a much mis­ lie interpreted Darwinism, however, he Stricken ;—and thy children, pierced by adopted the idea of the survival of the the sword fittest, affirming that Supremacy is to Of the blood-lusty foe, prostrate in the the strong. He substituted for Dar­ dust. win’s “Will to Live” the phrase "Will to A'ar-weary France ? Yes, war has sapped Power,” a catchword much in vogue at thy strength, the present time. But dimmed thy spirit never, for thy He prophesied the coming of a won­ soul, derful being, the Superman. It was no 'ure element of fire, onward moves, great stretch of imagination, then, for The sou! that leads on—on to victory! those thus inclined to see in this proph­ Hail, fairest France, Spirit of Liberty! ecy a symbol of the German nation, the chosen people. As a well-known profes­ sor writes: “Friedrich Nietsche was but German Philosophy and the the last of the singers and seers who, coming down from the light of Heaven, Present War. brought to us the tidings that there In discussing the causes of this pres­ should be born from us The Son of God, e t war, we think at once and rightly whom in his language he called “The :f Prussian Militarism and its lust for Superman.” vorld empire. But where did Prussia Many of his writings may be rightly ■cquire its militaristic views and its ar- interpreted as merely the visions of a ogant idea of forcing German “Kultur” poisoned brain, for in his last years, he ipon the whole world? The answer is became hopelessly insane, yet it must be im.ple. In a marked degree, a nation’s admitted that he has exerted and still irincinles and ideas are insnired by exerts a powerful influence not only upon ts philosophers. This is especially true the circle of intellectuals, but also upon f a country like Germany. Because of the German people as a whole. It has uer autocratic government, of the strict been well said of the German youth born mperial supervision of her schools, her in the ’seventies and early ’eighties that hurches. in short, of her whole national Nietzsche was the lighthouse toward ife she falls an easy victim to what- which their enthusiasm was directed. ver system of philosophy her ruler sl­ Can it be a mere coincidence, then, that ows to be propagated. in the first war which Germany has In recent times, the names of three waged since Nietzsche propounded the nen stand emblazoned on the heart of ‘ beast of prey” ideal, the German army very true German ; these are Nietzsche, is apparently inspired by a literal in­ 'reitschke, and Bernhardi. They have terpretation of such a standard? 4 THh■: CO LB 1 AN A la not thia war both a psychological firms, “to choose between public and pri cauae and effect of a atatement auch as vate morality, and, since the State is this? “We children of the future do power, its duties must rank differently not by any means think it desirable that from those of the individual. When the the Kingdom of righteousness and peace State’s salvation is at stake, there must should be established on the earth. We be no inquiry into the purity of the means rejoice in all men, who, like ourselves, employed; only let the State be secured ■love danger, war, and adventure,” or and no one will condemn them.” this—"You shall love peace as a means to Hoes not the following statement furl new wars and the short peace more than nish a reasonable basis for the mere the long. I do not advise you to to work scrap-of-paper argument? “No state but to fight, not to compromise and make can pledge its future to another. It peace but to conquer. Let your labor be knows no arbiter, and draws up all its lighting and your peace victory. You treaties with this implied reservation, suy that a good cause may hallow even Moreover every sovereign state has the war, but 1 say to you that it is a good undoubted right to declare war at its war which hallows every cause.” Such pleasure and is consequently entitled td doctrine was all the more pleasing to repudiate its treaties.” the German ear since the immortal He recognized the imperative need of Luther himself pronounced war to be German expansion both for commercial “a business divine in itself and as need­ advantage and to prevent her people ful and necessary to the world, as eating from being incorporated into other naj or drinking or any other work.” What tionalities. For “there can be no quesj •can be expected then from a nation tion at all.” he declares, “but that humarj whose religious and intellectual teachers civilization suffers loss every time a Gerj hold such views but that it will be utterly man is turned into a Yankee.” In ordel ■ruthless, merciless, and without con­ to guard against such a serious degeneral science? tion of the human race, he outlines Gerj In spite of the assertion that in the many’s future policy. To obtain a chance knapsuck of every cultured German for colonization, the natural method td soldier, there is always found the Bible, use and in fact, (he only one consistent Goethe’s Faust, and Nietzsche's Zara- with Prussia’s lofty ideals is by war, sd thustia. yet one thing has tended to ob­ he repeatedly asserts that “God above scure the latter’s influences. He was no us will see to it that war will always rej patriot, no lover of Prussia and its ways cur as a drastic medicine for ailing hu| and often glorified cosmopolitanism in manity.” ithe same breath with war. Another In his view, Germany has been the mind was needed to choose from his writ great civilizer of mankind and the vigor ings Prussian ideals and to pass them on ous purger of shams. All this serves in modified form. That man was Hein­ merely to increase her responsibility td rich von Treitschke, the prophet of tri­ spread her culture throughout the world, balism. So he looks forward to the dav when the Although deaf from childhood, Treit- saving of the poet shall be fulfilled : sohke occupied a prominent place in Ger- "Some daii through the German nation] inun life. “Our national historian,” the All the world shell find sal ration." Kaiser called him and well he deserved The third and perhaps the most war­ the title for his sole ambition was to like of all is General Friedrich von Bern- emulate the House of Hohenzollern and bardi, now famous as the author of the the rule of Prussia One of his main hook. “Germany and the Next War," a points was to establish the sovereignty work popular In both political and mili­ of the State. “It is necessary,” he af­ tary circles. Its avowed aim is to pre- THE COLB 1 AN A 5 ire the minds and hearts of the common fore our eyes and arrange our political ;ople for the approaching struggle. It and military plans accordingly.” saturated with deadly hate towards Steeped in such utterances and sur­ ngland, bitter jealousy of France, and rounded by such philosophy, it is no won­ correspondingly unbounding ambition der, then, that the German people are .r Germany. prosecuting this war with undreamed of He returns repeatedly to his country’s ruthlessncss, diabolical cunning, and ut­ ission in spreading her culture among ter barbarism.
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