The name of Dr. Morton Prince, an eminent Boston physician, has become familiar to all students of psychology through his remarkable book, " The Dissociation of a Personality." The following paragraphs are from a letter contributed to the " Boston Sunday Post," Feb. 7th, 1915 :
From the American viewpoint we are forced, however unwillingly, to the conclusion (in consideration of German warfare and German ideals of government) that Germany must be regarded in war as the enemy of civilisation, and in peace as the enemy of democracy.
Between the autocratic German viewpoint and the democratic American viewpoint there is an irreconcilable conflict-a conflict of ideals-that cannot be settled by argument, by citation of facts, by appeals to logic or to moral judgment.
It can only be settled by the arbitrament of arms. If the Allies win, we may expect that the ideals of the democratic viewpoint will receive a world-wide acceptance. It was thus that the conflict between the ideals of freedom and slavery was settled in this country only by the acceptance of the arbitrament of war.
If, on the other hand, Germany wins, the United States of America still remains to be settled with, and that conflict of viewpoints, between American democratic ideals and German autocratic ideals, will still exist, to be settled some day in the future by the arbitrament of the sword.
