[10] Alludes to a Viennese writer who had told me, a few weeks before the declaration of war, that a disaster for France would be a disaster for the liberal thinkers of Germany too. [11] See note, p. 193. [12] Liebknecht has since gloriously cleared his honor of the compromises of his party. I here express admiration of his attitude. (R. R., January 1915.) [13] Recently published in the _Corriere della Sera_ and translated by the _Journal de Genève_, September 1914. [14] _Le Temps_, September 4, 1914. [15] Issues of September 16 and 17, 1914: _La Guerre et le Droit_. [16] Letter dated September 15, 1871, published in _Réforme intellectuelle et morale_. [17] Open letter of Dr. Ernst Dryander, the First Court Preacher and Vice-President of the Higher Ecclesiastical Council, to C. E. Babut, Pastor of Nimes, September 15, 1914 (published in _l'Essor_ for the 10th October and the _Journal de Genève_, 18th October). [18] The newspapers of both countries give publicity only to prejudiced stories unfavorable to the enemy. One would imagine that they devote themselves to collecting only the worst cases, in order to preserve the atmosphere of hatred; and those to which they give predominance are often doubtful and always exceptional. No mention is made of anything that would tell in a contrary direction of prisoners who are grateful for their treatment, as in the letters which we have to transmit to their families--in which, for example, a German civil prisoner speaks of a pleasant walk, or of sea bathing, he has been allowed to enjoy. I have even come across the case of an entomologist who is peacefully absorbed in his researches, and profiting by his enforced sojourn in the South of France to complete his collection of insects. [19] On this point, I would echo the appeal in the article cited above, from the _Neue Zürcher Zeitung_. [20] Published by the _Daily Telegraph_, London, 1914. [21] The Editor of a great Paris paper having offered to publish my reply to those who attacked me, I sent him this article, which never appeared. [22] Paul Bourget. [23] The Evangelical pastor Schrenck in an article on "War and the New Testament," quoted with approval by the Rev. Ch. Correvon in the _Journal religieus_ of Neuchatel, November 14th. [24] In a declaration to the editor of the Swedish paper _Dagen_. [25] The famous "Appeal to the Civilized Nations" had been sent out shortly before this by the ninety-three German intellectuals. [26] Holland. [27] "To let a people," he said, "or still more a fraction of a people, decide international questions, for instance, which state shall control them, is as good as making the children of a house vote for their father. It is the most ridiculous fallacy that human wit has ever invented."