Above the Battle

"The fire smouldering in the forest of Europe was beginning to burst into flames. In vain did they try to put it out in one place; it only broke out in another. With gusts of sm...

I have awaited this virile disavowal from the proudest spirits of Germany, a disavowal which would have been ennobling instead of humiliating. The letter which I wrote to one of...

You Christians will say--and in this you seek consolation for having betrayed your Master's orders--that war exalts the virtue of sacrifice. And it is true that war has the priv...

German papers often accuse us of ingratitude, and reproach us with our lack of appreciation of the advantages of the culture which they boast of having brought us. We listen to...

Such action shows an utter lack of human feeling, and is almost more absurd than cruel. It really appears as though people had been deliberately separated from all who were dear...

But the intelligent few cannot satisfy themselves with so little effort. Not that they are, as is often said, less readily swayed by passion. This is a grave error; the richer a...

Those writings have also reached us, the undersigned, all subjects of a neutral state. We have read them with the greatest interest, as they enable us to form a clear opinion no...

It has been pointed out that in all countries the extremest views have been expressed by writers who have already passed _el mezzo del cammino_. We shall attempt to find the rea...

Brave, without care for his own life! Who is there among us that is that? We all know too well our own worth and our own possibilities; we are in the flower of our age: force is...

My enemies have not failed to make use of this passage to attribute to me sentiments of contempt with regard to the peoples of Asia and Africa. This charge is all the less justi...

[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...