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APPENDIX.

The Religion of Mob-Worship
or
The War and The Way Out.

Frankreich's traurig Geschick, die Grossen mögen's bedenken,
Aber bedenken fürwahr sollen es Kleine noch mehr;
Grossen gingen zu Grunde; doch wer beschütze die Menge
Gegen die Menge? Da war Menge der Menge Tyrann.

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Goethe.

PROFESSOR Lowes Dickinson of Cambridge University in an eloquent passage of his article on "The War and the Way out," says: "The future (the future of civilisation in Europe, he means) cannot be moulded to any purpose until the plain men and women, workers with their hands and workers with their brains in England and in Germany and in all countries get together and say to the people who have led them into this catastrophe and will lead them into such again and again, "No more! No more! And never again! you rulers, soldiers and diplomats, you who through the long agony of history have conducted the destinies of mankind and conducted them to hell, we do now repudiate you. Our labour and our blood have been at your disposal. They shall be so no more. You shall not make the peace as you have made the war. The Europe that shall come out of this war shall be our Europe. And it shall be one in which another European war shall be never possible."

That is the dream of the socialists now in Europe. But such a dream, I am afraid, can never be realised. When the plain men and women in the countries of

1. Dreadful is France's misfortune, the Classes should truly bethink them,
   But still more of a truth, the Masses should lay it to heart.
   Classes were smashed up; well then, but who will protect now the Masses
   'Gainst the Masses? Against the Masses the Masses did rage.