saddle bags, over the haunches of their flying nags.

"German religiosity," continued the Russian, "is the disavowal of
Christianity. In its eyes, men are no longer equal before God. Their God
is interested only in the strong, and favors them with his support
so that they may dare anything. Those born weak must either submit or
disappear. Neither are nations equal, but are divided into leaders and
inferior races whose destiny is to be sifted out and absorbed by their
superiors. Since God has thus ordained, it is unnecessary to state that
the grand world-leader is Germany."

Argensola here interrupted to observe that German pride believed itself
championed not only by God but by science, too.

"I know that," interposed the Russian without letting him
finish--"generalization, inequality, selection, the struggle for life,
and all that. . . . The Germans, so conceited about their special worth,
erect upon distant ground their intellectual monuments, borrowing of the
foreigner their foundation material whenever they undertake a new line
of work. A Frenchman and an Englishman, Gobineau and Chamberlain, have
given them the arguments with which to defend the superiority of their
race. With the rubbish left over from Darwin and Spencer, their
old Haeckel has built up his doctrine of 'Monism' which, applied to
politics, scientifically consecrates Prussian pride and recognizes its
right to rule the world by force."

"No, a thousand times no!" he exclaimed after a brief silence. "The
struggle for existence with its procession of cruelties may be
true among the lower species, but it should not be true among human
creatures. We are rational beings and ought to free ourselves from the