[28] The _Svenska Dagbladet_ sent to the principal intellectuals of Europe an inquiry on the subject of the results which the war would have, "for international collaboration, in the domain of the spirit." It asked "with anxiety, to what extent it would be possible, once peace was concluded, to establish relations between the scientists, writers, and artists of the different nations." [29] The literary appreciation of the work cited is here treated as of secondary importance, in order that evidence may be discovered with regard to the thought of Germany. [30] See the article of Josef Luitpol Stern, "Dichter," in _Die Weissen Blätter_, March 1915. [31] Hohe Gemeinschaft. [32] Fremde sind wir auf der Erde alle. [33] _Die Ueberschätzung der Kunst_ (December 1914). [34] _Von der Vaterlandsliebe_ (January 1915). [35] December 1914. [36] _Hymne auf den Schmerz_ (January 1915).--It is to be noted that the _Forum_ is read in the trenches, and that it has received many letters of approval from the front. (_Der Phrasenrausch und seine Bekaempfer_, February 1915.) [37] I take the phrase from M. Lucien Maury in an article written before the war: (_Journal de Genève_) March 30, 1914. This is quoted recently by M. Adolphe Ferrière who, in his remarkable Doctor's thesis, _La loi du Progrès_ attempts to solve the tragic problem of the part played by the élite. [38] The review _Die Tat_, published by Eug. Diederichs at Jena, prints long extracts from them in its issue for May 1915. [39] With an introduction by C. E. Babut. [40] His principal philosophical work is his Doctor's thesis: _La réalité du monde sensible_ (1891). Another thesis (in Latin) dates from the same year: _Des origines du socialisme allemand_, in which he goes back to the Christian socialism of Luther. His great historical work is his _Histoire sociale de la Révolution_. Very interesting is his discussion with Paul Lafargue on _l'Idéalisme et le matérialisme dans la conception de l'histoire_. [41] "The need of unity is the profoundest and noblest of the human mind" (_La réalité du monde sensible_). [42] "This young democracy must be given a taste for liberty. It has a passion for equality; it has not in the same degree an idea of liberty, which is acquired much more slowly and with greater difficulty. We must give the children of the people, by means of a sufficiently lofty exercise of their powers of thinking, a sense of the value of man and consequently of the value of liberty, without which man does not exist." (To the teachers, January 15, 1888.) [43] "As for myself, I have never made use of violence to attack beliefs, whatever they may be; nay, more, I have always abstained even from that form of violence which consists in insult. Insult expresses a weak and feverish revolt, rather than the liberty of reason." (1901.)