ABSTRACT
Individual liberty is drawn up against collective servitude, personal initiative against the tyranny of State Socialism, old habits of international integrity and respect for treaties against the supremacy of the cannon. The victory of the Teutonic theory would carry the nations back to the most distressful periods of their history, back to the eras of violence when the law of the strongest was the sole foundation of justice. The secret forces which ruled the actors in that great drama were drawn from quite other sources than the rationalism to which they constantly appealed. The European War marks the beginning of an era of upheaval in our manner of life, our feelings, and our thoughts. Theories and doctrines are vanishing one after the other, and no longer is the future assured, for the psychological forces which are locked in mortal combat are but beginning their work.
