. is just astrue now as when Omarwrote it eight hundredyears ago. The individ-ual or nation that worksfor material prosperityalone is building onsand. We have an ex-ample of this in the warthat is now going on. It is true that Ger-many has developed thegreatest efficiency thatthe world has ever seenor may ever see again:the Kultur that has been her watchwordfor so many years. But the individual hasbeen sacrificed to the State. Germany isone big, efficient machine in which the gov-ernment does the thinking. Our govern-ment is made by
. is just astrue now as when Omarwrote it eight hundredyears ago. The individ-ual or nation that worksfor material prosperityalone is building onsand. We have an ex-ample of this in the warthat is now going on. It is true that Ger-many has developed thegreatest efficiency thatthe world has ever seenor may ever see again:the Kultur that has been her watchwordfor so many years. But the individual hasbeen sacrificed to the State. Germany isone big, efficient machine in which the gov-ernment does the thinking. Our govern-ment is made by and for the individual;theirs thinks only of what is good for theState, what will bring greater efficiency:In the Fatherland efficiency is attainedthrough a multitude of laws which tell thepeople what they may or must do and whatthey may not or must not do. And here wecan learn a lesson: the laws are over Germany are little signs whichread Verboden (meaning Forbidden).There is a finality in the word. Any actionbarred by Verboden cannot be carried. out. Then, too, a laudable example of theefficiency of the great machine is shown inthe fact that in all Germany there is notone poorhouse, not one orphan asylum. Everyone is kept trackof, catalogued, from thetime of his birth, and ifit is necessary, providedfor. This is one of theman)- things their Kul-tur stands for. The dictionary definesour word culture asthe enlightenment anddiscipline acquired bymental and moral train-ing. Neither individ-ual nor nation can betruly successful withoutthat moral training,together with is an exampleof this culture. Butwhile England has cul-ture and philanthropy,the greatest poverty in the world exists inLondon, for all the land is owned by a fewrich. This makes a large, helpless, depend-ent class, in which is a warning for example out of many that could becited of her lack of efficiency is the fact thatthere are one million able-bodied men en-gaged in doing
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