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FOOTNOTES:

[1] For translating "The Murder of the Elite."

[2] One article only, "The Idols," may, I think, have been published in its entirety in _La Bataille syndicaliste_.

[3] I leave my articles in their chronological order. I have changed nothing in them. The reader will notice, in the stress of events, certain contradictions and hasty judgments which I would modify today.... In general, the sentiments expressed have arisen out of indignation and pity. In proportion as the immensity of the ruin extends one feels the poverty of protest, as before an earthquake. "There is more than one war," wrote the aged Rodin to me on the 1st of October, 1914. "What is happening is like a punishment which falls on the world."

[4] A telegram from Berlin (Wolff's Agency), reproduced by the _Gazette de Lousanne_, August 29, 1914, has just announced that "the old town of Louvain, rich in works of art, exists no more to-day."

[5] Written after the bombardment of Rheims Cathedral.

[6] When I wrote this, I had not yet seen the monstrous article by Thomas Mann (in the _Neue Rundschau_ of November 1914), where, in a fit of fury and injured pride, he savagely claimed for Germany, as a t.i.tle to glory, all the crimes of which her adversaries accuse her. He dared to write that the present war was a war of German Kultur "against Civilization," proclaiming that German thought had no other ideal than militarism, and inscribes on his banner the following lines, the apology of force oppressing weakness:

"_Den der Mensch verk.u.mmert im Frieden,_ _Mussige Ruh ist das Grab des Muts._ _Das Gesetz ist der Freund des Schwachen,_ _Alles will es nur eben machen._ _Mochte gern die Welt verflachen,_ _Aber der Krieg la.s.st die Kraft erscheinen...._"

(_Man deteriorates in peace. Idle rest is the tomb of courage. Law is the friend of the weak, it aims at levelling all; it would reduce the world to a level. War brings out strength._)

Even so a bull in the arena, mad with rage, rushes with lowered head on the matador's sword, and impales himself.

[7] As one of these 'pedants of barbarism' (so Miguel de Unamuno rightly describes them) writes, "one has the right to destroy; if one has the force to create" (Wer stark ist zu schaffen, der darf auch zerstoren).--Friedr Gundolf: _Tat und Wort im Krieg_, published in the _Frankfurter Zeitung_, October 11th. Cf. the article of the aged Hans Thoma, in the _Leipziger Ill.u.s.trierte Zeitung_ of October 1st.

[8] _Jean-Christophe_, part V, "La Foire sur la Place." In vol. III of the English version.--TRANS.

[9] At the very hour I wrote these lines, Charles Peguy died.

[10] Alludes to a Viennese writer who had told me, a few weeks before the declaration of war, that a disaster for France would be a disaster for the liberal thinkers of Germany too.

[11] See note, p. 193.

[12] Liebknecht has since gloriously cleared his honor of the compromises of his party. I here express admiration of his att.i.tude. (R.

R., January 1915.)

[13] Recently published in the _Corriere della Sera_ and translated by the _Journal de Geneve_, September 1914.

[14] _Le Temps_, September 4, 1914.

[15] Issues of September 16 and 17, 1914: _La Guerre et le Droit_.

[16] Letter dated September 15, 1871, published in _Reforme intellectuelle et morale_.

[17] Open letter of Dr. Ernst Dryander, the First Court Preacher and Vice-President of the Higher Ecclesiastical Council, to C. E. Babut, Pastor of Nimes, September 15, 1914 (published in _l'Essor_ for the 10th October and the _Journal de Geneve_, 18th October).

[18] The newspapers of both countries give publicity only to prejudiced stories unfavorable to the enemy. One would imagine that they devote themselves to collecting only the worst cases, in order to preserve the atmosphere of hatred; and those to which they give predominance are often doubtful and always exceptional. No mention is made of anything that would tell in a contrary direction of prisoners who are grateful for their treatment, as in the letters which we have to transmit to their families--in which, for example, a German civil prisoner speaks of a pleasant walk, or of sea bathing, he has been allowed to enjoy. I have even come across the case of an entomologist who is peacefully absorbed in his researches, and profiting by his enforced sojourn in the South of France to complete his collection of insects.

[19] On this point, I would echo the appeal in the article cited above, from the _Neue Zurcher Zeitung_.

[20] Published by the _Daily Telegraph_, London, 1914.

[21] The Editor of a great Paris paper having offered to publish my reply to those who attacked me, I sent him this article, which never appeared.

[22] Paul Bourget.