utterly. She shall be shorn of her navy and she shall lose her
colonies--certainly she shall lose India and Egypt. She will become a
third-class Power and she will stay a third-class Power. Forget Japan--
Germany will punish Japan in due season.

"Within five years from now I predict there will be an offensive and
defensive alliance of all the Teutonic and all the Scandinavian races of
Europe, with Bulgaria included, holding absolute dominion over this
continent and stretching in an unbroken line from the North Sea to the
Adriatic and the Black Sea.

"Europe is to have a new map, my friends, and Germany will be in the
middle of that map. When this has been accomplished we shall talk about
disarmament--not before. And first, we shall disarm our enemies who
forced this war on us."

The scientist spoke next. He is a tall, spectacled, earnest
Westphalian, who has invented and patented over a hundred separate
devices used in electric-lighting properties, and, in between, has found
time to travel round the world several times and write a book or two.

"I do not believe in war," he said. "War has no place in the
civilization of the world to-day; but this war was inevitable. Germany
had to expand or be suffocated. And out of this war good will come for
all the world, especially for Europe. We Germans are the most
industrious, the most earnest and the best-educated race on this side of
the ocean. To-day one-fourth of the population of Belgium cannot read
and write. Under German influence illiteracy will disappear from among
them. Russia stands for reaction; England for selfishness and perfidy;
France for decadence. Germany stands for progress. Do not believe the