" ... I assure M. Maeterlinck that no one in Germany thinks of imitating the act of his 'civilized nation.' We prefer to be and to remain the German barbarians for whom the women and the children of our enemies are sacred. I can assure him that we never thoughtlessly massacre and make martyrs of Belgian women and children. Our witnesses are on our frontiers; the socialist beside the bourgeois, the peasant beside the savant, and the prince beside the workman: and all fight with a full realization of the object, for a noble and rich national treasure, for internal and external goods which aid the progress and the ascent of humanity." TO PAGE 41 ("ABOVE THE BATTLE") My enemies have not failed to make use of this passage to attribute to me sentiments of contempt with regard to the peoples of Asia and Africa. This charge is all the less justified in that I have precious friendships amongst the intellectuals of Asia, with whom I have remained in correspondence during this war. These friends have been so little misled as to my real thought that one of them, a leading Hindu writer, Ananda Coomaraswamy, has dedicated to me an admirable essay which appeared in the _New Age_ (December 1914), entitled "A World Policy for India," but-- 1. Asiatic troops, recruited amongst races of professional warriors, in no way represent the thought of Asia, as Coomaraswamy agrees. 2. The heroism of the troops of Africa and Asia is not under discussion. There was no need for the hecatombs, which have been made during the past year, to evoke admiration for their splendid devotion. 3. As regards barbarism, I am glad to confess that now the "white-skins" can no longer reproach "skins, black, red, or yellow" in this respect. 4. It is not the latter but the former whom I blame. I denounce today once more with as much vigor as fourteen months ago, the short-sighted policy which has introduced Africa and Asia[53] into the quarrels of Europe. The future will justify my indictment. R. R. * * * * * PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. INDEX Abattoir of Ypres and Dixmude, the, 103. Absurdity, a ferocious, 47. Academicians and Professoren, the voice of, 153. Academy of moral science, the, 44. Address to the Civilized Nations, 60. Ador, M. Gustave, 83. Adversary, A Frenchman does not judge his, unheard, 17, 31. _Agence internationale des prisonniers de guerre_, 83. Ajax, the madness of, 78. Albert, King, 93. Allies, the, 73, 98. Allophyles, 44. Angell, Norman, 137. Apostles, rival, 45. Architecture like Rheims, a piece of, 24. Archbishop of Canterbury, 12, 145. Arguments, furious, 119. Armies of the Marne and Meuse, 40. Art, 16. Aryan race, 44. Asia and Africa, forces of, 99; ethnological signification of the terms of, 194. Atrocities committed in Flanders, 25; in Russia, 70. Attila, 21. _Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle für Deutsche im Ausland und Ausländer in Deutschland_, 146. Austerlitz, 45. Austria, 50.