Nevertheless, when I spoke with a very prominent American, now in a
responsible position abroad, he said: "The Germans have food and
supplies, and they have an idea; and the only way to overcome that idea
is by their destruction. The South had no resources for a three-year
or four-year war, but it had an institution, an idea, and a
determination. If you will recall it, at the close of the war there
were practically no men left in the South. This war will be over when
the fighting men of Germany have been killed off."

I have so much respect for the business, mathematical, and scientific
mind of Germany, that I cannot believe she will prefer the destruction
of the German people, individually or collectively, to the destruction
of the German war-machine which set on this war.

I make the following estimate of the casualties--killed, wounded,
missing, and prisoners--of the warring powers, omitting Turkey and
Japan, up to February 1, 1915:--

German........ 1,800,000
French........ 1,200,000
Russian....... 1,600,000
Austrian...... 1,300,000
Belgian....... 200,000
Servian....... 150,000
Montenegrin... 20,000
English....... 110,000
Total....... 6,280,000


Not in a hundred years, or since the Napoleonic wars of 1793 to 1815,