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Professors Wiener and Magoun, in their Boston Herald briefs on the German-political-racial situation, might be amused to know how their arguments strike one of the general public who can not boast of great learning, but one who tries to limp along on a modicum of common sense...
...cannot see why Prof. Magoun needs to be called severely to task by Professor Wiener for recounting the philosophy of the Nazis. I was thankful to see it succinctly put, and did not leap to the immediate conclusion that Prof. Magoun was a rabble-rouser. If I explain to the press why Eskimos eat candles, or state what particular gastronomic pleasure cannibals derive from missionaries, is it to be assumed that I approve of such edibles or such ethics, or that I am a cannibal...
...check irresponsibility toward what seem (and please note the words "what seem") to the German people to be the highest aspirations of our western civilization." In other words, Professor Magoun says indirectly that for a short-term period the German universities may well be damaged. He answered here Professor Wiener's specific question before the latter asked it. Now I ask, who put up the straw man to be knocked down...
Thus it seems to me that those who take seriously the Nazi chatter on these subjects must make even the Nazis laugh. Professor Wiener does his intelligence no credit if he thinks those who run Germany are fools. Let him call them flends if he will, but not fools. They know exactly what they want (Regard--Oh, Democracy!) and the chances are, that in spite of the nervous French and the nervous Jews, they will get it. In History, is or is it not that that counts...
Where is there lament in the fact that these professorial geniuses have left Germany? If the Nazis had killed them all, Professor Wiener's complaints would be in better order. The world has lost nothing. Harvard and Tech are perhaps guiltiest of all schools in buying outstanding talent from other institutions. Would Professor Wiener dare say that the men who replace these professors in the dispossessed schools are "jealous little men who hide themselves under the skirts of the cloak of scholarship?" No, Professor, we do not believe that after the few Jews and liberals depart the German faculties that...