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We must add a word of special condemnation for those

foolish and unjust persons who seem to think that Lord Haldane must be an enemy of his country because he loves German literature, and admires the splendid devotion of the Germans to learning and science. We are almost ashamed to chronicle attacks so despicable. Lord Haldane's patriotism is without a stain, and we trust he may long continue to enjoy his Goethe, his Hegel, his Kant, and his Schopenhauer. To put the mighty minds of Germany under a ban because their descendants have degenerated would be barbarism indeed. It would be comparable to the destruction of the Belgian monuments of architecture by the German generals.