Herr David, perhaps the ablest of the leaders of the Majority Socialists, declared in the Reichstag that “The German armies must continue to fight vigorously _whilst the German Socialists encourage and stimulate pacifism among Germany’s enemies_.” The whole policy of the Majority Socialists has been based upon that sinister principle. The small and uninfluential but heroic minority, led by Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg and George Ledebour alone have exemplified the ideals of Socialism. They deserve our lasting honor as fully as the others deserve our lasting contempt. Socialism is not dead in Germany: only the great political party of Socialism is shattered. In the hearts of the brave men and women of the Minority Socialists the sacred flame still burns. In that lies the only hope for German Socialism. History will record this bitter judgment of the German Social Democracy: It was an active partner in the crimes of the Hohenzollern dynasty against civilization; it infamously betrayed the Russian Revolution and prostituted itself to the most malefic despotism of a thousand years. JOHN SPARGO. [Illustration] _The Spirit of German Science_ The moral revulsion of the world against the Germans is justified by their use of science. It is not a question of the excellence, amount, or character of science--all subjects of legitimate debate--but of the use the Germans make of science. While science has been used in war at all times and has been a formidable arm in the hands of those who have known how to use it, still the limits of its use have been fixed with more or less rigor. Even before the conventions of The Hague were formulated, there was the general recognition of the natural distinction between civilized and barbarous warfare. The savage’s poisoned arrow has been the symbol of what, though scientific, was barbarous. The murder of the wounded soldier or of the disarmed prisoner has always been condemned as the crime of the _apache_, not the method of the gentleman. Pity for the innocent--women, children, even the animals--and merciful treatment of the helpless--the drowning, the famished--seem to mark man, even in the profession of intentional killing of his fellow-man, as moved by a certain sentiment, a certain sense of human superiority to the brute which takes blood simply from the love of it. Even against the legitimate foe there are certain means of offense so base--the use of poison in wells, the diffusion of microbes of disease--or so treacherous--the dynamite-loaded cigar--that the chivalrous man redresses himself at the thought of them with a shudder of mingled moral contempt and physical nausea. This has been the use made of science by the Germans. They have abolished the distinction between the knight and the brute, between the man and the snake, between pure science and foul practice. This damns the German race.