Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Napoleon tried it, and the France of to-day is a denial, a glorious denial of the despotism for which Napoleon stood. The Kaiser of Germany tried it, and General von Bernhardi, his war lord, made a world tour of Egypt and India and Japan and South America, and in 1913 he secretly toured the United States to teach that " Law is a makeshift, that the only reality is Force; Law is for weak men and for weak nations, but Force is for the strong, and that the State is above morality." And in 1914, in defiance of Law, in defiance of Justice, in ruthless defiance of solemn treaty obligations, the Kaiser and his war-lords put Bernhardi's teaching into execution, and the blood of defenseless Belgium, like the blood of the murdered Abel at history's early dawn, cried aloud and still cries for the vengeance of God on the most colossal crime of Cain. God is Not Mocked And once again in the terrible realities of these awful months God is not mocked : Law is not mocked: the Galilean is not mocked. The law of the world's good-will stands andforever will stand, majestic and inviolate, when the haughty hosts of the Prussian warlords are put to confusion and when their infamous lawbreaker, the disproved suicide of history, falls a broken and helpless wreck in the world's front street. But the imperious law of the world's goodwill, whose transgression makes inevitable Germany's undoing, is law for Britain, too, and for France, and for Russia, and for all the allied warring nations of Europe. It is law for America also, law for Canada, scarred and still bleeding from the awful woundings of these years of the world's war, and law for the United States, set free at last from all moral hesitations and divided counsels, and standing up to be counted in the world's Armageddon on the side of righte...