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Show MUJvSTERBERG S MAZE Professor Munsterberg urges the Germans to prefer Koofcevelt abo e W 1 son in case the to run tor president At first glance t stuns oua to find the kaiser s fr end andeiyroy extraordinary to the educa taonal world of Amer ca fa onng an ex president who wanted to make w ar on German because Belgium was n , vaded and the Lusitan is nk But the f prof es or being a ps chologist has d s covered someth ng that is hidden from I ?the ordinary Teutoni ken lie finds w Roosevelt s a kind of Teuton ate that he js Teutonic in prrit It ot mind In his viewpo nts nd flaily m his decisi eness of ai professor is not for Eoose elt e of what the es president has ut because of what the ex pres would hare done had he been in bite house As a psychologist the n savant knows better than elt him elf what the statesman ;amore Hill would have done had eu president Roosevelt being iic la spirit and appreciative of uc institutions and views wonld icted as president gust contrary way he has acted and spoken private individual Harvard s logical seer pictures Roosevelt in iTafa capacity aB a demagogue tshes with all his megaphones to pjilar ide Given the power of EJtxecnfeve lis woukf ftSfcvfe seen the jubce of Germany s cause oiild have enlisted the United .oo. the side of Germany and i early in the war t wonders hath psychology itl It is a pity that the ordi o dividual does not possess some insterberg s penetration Then ids and souls of the candidates for nt would be as open books In f looking into the campaign books ten would simply take a glance id then into the candidate s soul t While a candidate was spouting eloquently elo-quently about the horrors of war and the need of keeping the peace at any price the voter wonld turn the psychological psycho-logical flashlight into the candidate s soul .and discover that he was a con firmed militarist th rsting for human blood and all the pnde pomp and cir com stance of glorious war Another candidate might go on the stump and denounce the kaiser and the voter switching the spotlight into the north : east corner of the candidate s soul, wonld discover that the wretch knew by heart all the ka ser s speeches and bad financed a plot to blow np an am monition ship Evidently Professor Munsterberg has turned the flashlight upon Pres dent W Ison s soul and found that u sp te of all protestations of neutral ty he s pro-British As th s is to be a German c world which the professor adm ts we must abandon the ut I tar an ph losophy I preached bv John Stuart I 1 and Jeremy Bentham and adopt the K"ant an ' creed of the eternal value of the f I fillment of d ty w th ts de ran 1 for . d snpline and thus tr e moral f ee dom w II take boll of every nat on When that top comes we shall re og n ze the eternal al e of the n as on of Belg n bv wh ch of ourse ' Germany fulf I el ts luty to tse f tear ng up as a irrap of paper he treatv bv wh ch t was bo nH n d ty to reipect Belg an ne tral tj Our own nit t t ons a d leal om down to 8 fron a t mo a e ban that of M II or Ben ban an I tie other tnglsh ut I a as They come dow to us from the magna cbarta the 1 II of rights an 1 from the per od ust pre i ced ng the rev ol t on n France O r I ideals have oever been util tar an Or ideal has been liberty w th the I so pline of law an 1 orler the greatest po sibl personal 1 bertj bit respect for the rights of all no anarcbv and no despot sm What the profisaor means bv true moral freedom he loes not OTpla o an 1 we have n means of tell mil what be meant bv st dying the modern German r olit 'al ph losophers who are util tar ans beyond compare |