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...strongest, and the supposed suggestion in his doctrine that the breeding of fierce soldiers is the key to national preeminence in the world's affairs. But just as both parties in the world war can, if they like, claim that Nietzsche is on their side--hater of Prussians and of all Prussianism as he certainly was, yet author of the "superman" theory--so the Darwinians may point out that, according to Darwin, it is the fittest, and not necessarily the strongest physically or materially, that survives, and fitness may reside as much in patience, in industry and in moral purpose...
...only essence it is in no way concerned with whom the different classes elect. It has no controlling vote such as the Prussian delegates have in the German Bundesrath; it neither elects its own ticket nor canvasses for votes. It is the same machinery as is behind any municipal or national elections; which knows nothing beyond the number of ballots to be printed, the places where the elections should be held, and the proper tabulating of the votes...
...perfectly simple to carry out successfully if one is willing to use up sufficient ammunition. So we need not feel that we have suffered a defeat. Our troops are but human after all and ten Germans are and should be able to overpower one American. We must get the Prussian idea out of our heads, namely, that we are a race of supermen...
...least with soldiers. J. T. Rogers '18 contributes two stories: "Those who stand and wait" is a satirical study of an eloquent young pacifist who is forsaken, when the war comes, by all his disciples; "The Female of the Species" is a story in early-Kipling style, of a Prussian captain and the traditional seductive female spy. F. D. Perkins '19, in "The End of a Perfect Day," reproduces in amusing fashion the confused state of mind of one man in the midst of an extensive maneuvre at Camp Azan--"knowing he is wrong, but not knowing...
Born at Paris in 1884 of Alsatian parents who had removed to French Territory after the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Captain Amann was educated at the University of Paris, first in the Lycee Montaign and later in the Lycee Louis le Grand. Leaving the University at the age of 16, he entered the leather business and became connected with the Paris branch of an American leather concern. He began his two years military service in 1905, in which he rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1910, he passed examinations for a commission and was made a reserve...