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never been separated from religion. It is beginning to be realized that nowhere can ethics be separated from religion, for religion embraces all life, every phase of life. War 3s an experience of life. Therefore ethics has a Tight to investigate it. The history of. causes and events that led up to the great war in Europe today Is the material side of the struggle. Ethics accepts this aocotmt of causes and events and incidents it aocepts everything that England claims, everything that Russia claims, everything that France explains, everything that Germany explains, and then asks: "Is it right?"

In life civilization has evolved specialists. Each specialist separates a part of life for his field of study. The eye, the ear, the nose, the brain are each separated in the field of medicine or of physiology for special investigation. In some respects this must be done to get better resulta In reality, however, we cannot separate the eye from the entire human body, nor the brain, nor the ear. To understand the brain, we must understand every organ and every function of the human body. There is no unrelated thing in the universe.

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Religion and State.

In human affairs the same thing is ^een, but not always noted. Religion and the state have been separated for special work. In reality they can not be separated. The activities of nations as of individuals can not be separated from ethical life, which is a part of the all-pervading law of the universe. From the point of ivlew of the Jew, who is the genius of the religious Interpretation of the universe, it is a grave mistake, a gigantic misfortune, to state the claims of the nations now at war, for these claims obscure the real issue, namely the "Ethics of "War."

Every department of human life, and national life is human life, must be Ailed with Judgment, and based on justice. There are no substitutes for this formula of the prophet.

Ferdinand Shevil, professor of history at the University of Chicago, has well stated at the close of his article, the position we here take: "Behind this war is more than politics and diplomacy behind It is the whole civilization of Europe, brilliant though it be, must be si^Kering from many wasting cankers to have been brought to this sorry pass. Let the newspapers and diplomats expatiate as much as they will on this or that "incident" which caused the war, the real reasons lie deep down at the (very roots of our culture, they lie In our wild pursuit of wealth, our rampant commercialism, In our race hatreds, in our insufficient love of our fellow man, in our competitive psychology and in a hundred other things constituting in their totality, what we boastlngly refer to as our civilization."

Without, therefore, obscuring the problem of human life by incidents, it may be said that Germany and Japan, as authorities tell us, are the only two countries with problems different from those of all other countries. Germany as well as Japan each has a constantly increasing population to deal with, and a limited space in which to take care of them. Germany has an increase in her population annually of over eight hundred thousand, whi*h in itself shows the virile and moral strength of her people. Her everyday problems of employment and care of the working classes and governmental justice and honor, Germany has solved better than any other country, but it can not be denied that hypocrisy in religion is characteristic of the upper classes in Germany.

Russia, France, England, Austria, the United States have no such problems as Germany and Japan. Each has land enough and more than enough for every inhabitant. No need for any of them to go out and conquer new lands, or subject new places to their sway. If they were honest with themselves, If they used Judgment in their dally affairs, and gave sufficient thought to Justice, they would find enough everyday problems to occupy their attentions for at least five hundred years to come.

What Confronts Nations.

Russia has her agrarian problems. The Russian pees ants look towards their czar as towards a messiah in the hope that he would adjust their laid problem. Russia has her educational problems, her governmental corruption problems, her Inhumanity problems, her poverty problems, problems enough for a thousand years, if she used Judgment and cared for Justice. Austria's race problems alone are sufficient for five hundred years of earnest honest Judgment in the adjustment of her internal affairs. England has her problems of woman's suffrage, of poverty, of unemployment, of sexual immorality, enough problems for five hundred years without going outside to impress her lack of, civilization. France, in addition to the everyday problems of other countries, has the problem of rejuvenating her moral life, the most corrupt, the most degenerate of any nation in the world. If she used Judgment, and were imbued with justice, she, too, would have enough to do for five hundred years in her own borders.

Now all these nations have solved their problems by slaughtering their men, starving and raping their women, killing their children and letting hell loose on earth. Granting all that tlicy claim, every word of it, the ethics of war, the ethics of human life, emI phasizes the thought of the prophet: "Let Judgment run down like water, and Justice like a mighty stream."

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THE ETHICS OF WAR.

"Let judgment ran down like watee, and Jnsttoe !13m ai} unfatltasr styeam." (Amos. t-t*y.

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life and not the spiritual side. The prophets who were the true statesmen because they walked on earth and their thoughts soared toward the heaven, halve laid down the eternal law of individuals and nations: "Let Judgment run down like water, and Justice like a mighty stream." The arguments of statesmen are so purile, so stupid, that it is almost an insult to human intelligence to discuss them.

Has No Remedy.

War never settles anything. War nevei decides human problems it in. creases and multiplies them a thou-sand-fold. Only justice and judgment can solve human problems. After the war is over, after the flower of the nations has enriched the soil, the heartache and the misery and the unspeakable sorrow of countless men, women and children, the statesmen must come together to talk it over and to decide what is right and what is wrong, to decide what they want and what they ought to have. It is never the 3word, it is the conception of right that settles the problems after the war. Intelligence, of which these statesmen boast, would dictate that such a conference could be held before the slaughter and heartache and the suffering. Only the thief objects to being watched. The honest man does not object to being asked about his motives, and to be watched about his activities. If a nation's motives be honorable and Just, it does not object to have its cause judged by men of probity and honor before war. Let us not forget the principle here involved. It is not the sword, but the ideas of right and of justice that finally settles the difficulties between nations. They go to war rather than have them decide it before the gigantic slaughter. As nations grow more and more honorable in their policy, and moral in their life, they will Insist that their differences be decided strictly and only "by the principle of honor and of justice and of right. The great trouble with us is that we have commercialized our religion instead of religionizing our commerce.

Misguided Civilizaton.

First we send missionaries to the heathen, and then on some pretext we take his country from him or rob him of his earthly goods, of his human liberty, all under the guise of civilization. The ethics of this whole war is the charity that we do and the education that we hope may come from it: "That war is murder, unsanctioned, unwarranted murder." The United States has ruot risen very far above the civilization of the world if she hg.d, she would not emphasize her commercial Interests but frown upon this state of insanity in Europe, and refuse utterly to sell to any of the nations while they are In this state of insanity. That would be high-minded neutrality with a view to restoring the sanity of the afflicted nations. (a) There are not lacking those moral teachers who preach that war is necessary for the moral education of man that heroism, courage, and devotion would all die were it jiot for the influence of war. I agree with them that nothing is so despicable as a moral coward, but I do not agree that a soldier in the battlefield is a moral hero. The gardener must always pluck out his weds and his thorns every year anew. It is this plucking out the weeds that makes the gardener healthy and strong, and his garden a paradise. So the gardeners of humanity must ever fight, not with sword but with ethical purpose to make them moral heroes, and the earth a place fit for man to live in. There Is no need for creating wars, there are wars enough to be fought out in every land, not by the soldier with gun and bayonet, but by the moral giants with courage and manhood and honor and justice. Wars shall never cease on the earth as long as man aspires towards perfection, bu* the beastly, the brutal, the barbarous, the criminal wars will cease. We need in every land heroes of judgment and of Justice to battle with unemployment. To send these unemployed out into the battlefield to be shot is no solution of the problem. It Is cowardly and not heroic, rt requires not soldier heroes but man heroes to deal with the problem of unemployment. (b) With all due respect to the great men who have distinguished themselves on the battlefield of life, I doubt whether any of them, the greatest of any land, is worthy to be compared to the hero of the future, who will tight and win the battle of poverty and wealth.

World Ignorance.

(c) infinitely greater strength and courage and moral force are required to conquer the criminals in every land than to conquer the ephemeral enemy in the battlefield. The wax against criminals is a moral war and requires men of greater stamina than any of the men now in the battlefields. If society is to attain the best it is capable of. then the criminal, who is the one enemy of society, must be conquered. Now to do this with judgment and with justice is a far more vital problem |i"d one fraught with greater results all the problem*

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Involved la pseeent Burepeaa war of insanity, (6) How to be csfan, aod just asaA deliberate In our oooauast of disease and diseased am and woman 1* a real problem. a. oobm fur the beat tund the noblest and the most honorable thoughts In avowj nation. The enemy of every country la not the foreigner •but the home-fcara profligate, who, himself diseased, spreads oontagion to unborn generations. These must be cut

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(e) The Increasing army of the insane and the wealc-minded who propagate their kind, and undermine tbe foundations of starte and church, most be conquered by kindhearted, strong-minded men and women of judgment and of Justice.

CO The great hidden enemy of every nation, illegitimate parents and illegitimate children, that are betraying the government of moral purity, of home-building, and of cleanliness of mind, requires that we put into the field not military forces or physical strength but the untried greater human forces of moral courage and manly and womanly honor. (g) If there were no other enemies threatening the welfare of every state and every nation, surely this one alone, ignorafice, is enough to call forth the united efforts, and arouse them to greatest moral vigor, if we were really patriotic and as earnest with OUT ethi cal problems as the reports of the warring nations would have ua believe they are in the present business of slaughter. Ignorance is the greajt enemy of man, and we can never hope to employ justice nor judgment unless we conquer the enemy, ignorance. How to divert the wealth wasted in war and the preparations for wax which our misguided statesmen call the preparations for peace, how to di vert this wealth into the channels of education requires mare heroism than all the soldiery of all the nations of the world ever possessed!

Meaning of Patriotism,

Endless, indeed, are the wars that we shall have to fight, that we ought to fight now, if we were as patriotic as we think we are when we shoulder a gun and march to kill our fellowworker. For, after all, we must learn that humanity is one. Every individual Is related to every other individual, and every nation is an organic part of the body humanity. If my neighbor is diseased, and I think it is not my business, and that disease spreads to my house and my neighbor's hoctse, then we become related in dlseaae if not in health. One nation's business is errery nation's one nation's sorrow is every nation's sorrow one nation's happiness is every nation's happiness. There is no such thing as separating one nation from humanity. Humanity consists of every human being in humanity and until we recognize that the welfare of every individual and every nation Is our business we shall not and can not be healthy or happy. The Jews as a nation, though scattered throughout the whole world, have ever dreamed-of a united humanity. They are a nation of priests, and though persecuted and oppressed, though considered materialists and aiming after the welfare of the body, they have never been entrapped by material welfare so as to forget their spiritual aim. They forgot after every outburst of persecution all the hatred, for they knew that it is Ignorance, sheer ignorance, lack of understanding, lack of heart and head-training that brings about hatred and the attending results. The Jews are indeed the middlemen, bringing together pauper and prince, proud and humble, servant and master and all because they are willing to forget their own personal comforts and their rights as men that they might serve to' link men together in a grand brotherhood. Such heroism as the Jewhas displayed In his willingness to forget self for the service of humanity Is not only unappreciated, but mostly misunderstood, or rather not understood at all, for modern civilization lays emphasis on self-assertion, emphasis on individualism, and no real emphasis on service. The United States has some small inkling of what the Jew has 'been performing for over three thousand years, but it Is not as unselfish as the Jew is, neither has it stood the test of centuries as has the Jew. Whether the United States will indeed help the Jew in his mission of priesthood, bringing all men together in a bond of brotherhood, will depend upon whether commercialism will enslave idealism or whether ethic* religionized, will pervade our commercial and national life.

Need of Humanity.

To listen to the siren voices of European statesmen is to forget that the United States has the possibility of becoming a priest people in the working out of humanity's destiny. People talk of England's necessity of being mistress of the sea. We need no mistress of the sea, no master of the land. The mistress of the sea should be, granting the material side of life, a federation of all the nations of the globe. If there be some monster out on the ocean that must still be watched by the mistress of the sea, then let every nation contribute a battleship and all together form a confederation for protecting andvwatching each other and thus also let the master of the land be not any one nation, but an army composed of men from every nation on the face of the earth. Thus shall they keep peace on earth. But all euch precautions have been round to be failures for the simple reason that we always forget the heel of Achilles, the vulnerable spot. The vulnerable spot of every nation, and of every nation's armament is the lack of judgment and of justice. An intelligent desire to use the best Judgment, an honest desire to be just are the only precautions that any nation need or can have. AH other safe-guards are unsafe as has been illustrated time and again, and It is illustrated in the present war of destruction. Humanity's aim, therefore, a protected brotherhood of sane healthy and proud men and women, must be protected by sound Judgment and absolute justice. This is the ethics of war.

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