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 immovably based, he is unable to speak with even a colour of sanity.

"The Christian concept of God—God as the deity of the sick, God as spider, God as spirit—is one of the most corrupt concepts of God that have ever been attained on earth." Christianity and alcohol are "the two great instruments of corruption."

That he said, "You are going among women. Do not forget your whip!" I do not regard as essential to his philosophy. Most men have said angry things about women at one time or other. But it does happen that the position of women is more abject in Germany than anywhere else in Europe. And it does happen that Nietzsche also said—

"For man, happiness lies in the formula, I desire. For woman, in the formula, he desires."

And also "man is to be reared for war, woman for the recreation of the warrior. All the rest is folly."

Did Hauptmann's Germans, one wonders, whip out their new knapsack Bibles and run over this text before they entered Aerschot and Louvain?

In his practical ethics he works out the theory of the Ems telegram and the Berlin Press Bureau—

"In point of fact it matters greatly to what end one lies, whether one preserves or destroys by means of falsehood."