F. D. MAURICE AND THE PRESENT WAR. [To ras Elul.oa
or ear "Eracraros."] SIR,—All those of your readers who have been accustomed to find in the teachings of Mr. Maurice a philosophic prescience may like to recall in 1914 what he wrote to his son during the Franco-German War of 1870
"My horror of empires is so great that I dread the thought of a revived German Empire. • . . I fear lest Germany should suffer, not only in the loss of her sons, but in the loss of her moral tone —in the growth of a desire for conquest. There is a very able letter of Mar Midler in the Times, maintaining that a united Germany would be the greatest security for the peace of Europe. . . . But the grave purpose of Prussia is a lesson: there is a terror in it, too."—(Lift, II., 618.) —I am, Sir, Sm., COURTNEY KENNY. Downing College, Cambridge.
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