ABSTRACT
Mr. Ralph Barton Perry, who addresses people in another column, is a professional philosopher, and to their certain knowledge a good one. It is part of his daily business to use words accurately. What seems to trouble Professor Perry is that after sixteen months of devastating war we prefer to waste as little energy as possible in hating the Germans. Germany, anyone interested in the future of the world has to speak out. For the point to remember is that while a nation may enter the war with clean hands, there is no guarantee that it will emerge with clean hands. People may believe that in July, 1914, the cause of France and England was the cause of humanity. There seem to be two groups of people who avoid this impotence of hate. They are the soldiers who have met the enemy, and the non-combatants whose minds are concentrated on the future.
