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MUSICALERIE ERLAE

A
Leader of Viennese Dramatis
Schnitzer
is growing and spreading, and the
By HERMAN BERNSTEIN
most dreadful feature of it all is
What is becoming of Europe ?
that people are talking of now
THAT Henrik Ibsen was
wars in the near future.
to the Norwegian
We see More at han ef¬
"It was the most brutal of all

drama, August Strind-
wars. It destroyed more values
than any previous war. We see
berg to the Swedish, Anton
Terror of Old Battles and S
chaos, povery, ruination every
Chekhou to the Russian, what
where in Europe. And we see
Gerhardt Hauptmann is to the
in the Vistas of Time-Wo¬
more hate than before the war.
German drama, Bernard Shaw
to the English and Maurice
Careless of Huma
Spread of Hate
Maeterlinck to the French,
"To check this spread of hat
them that in a round about way
thing is that
"All we may hope for is that
Arthur Schnitzler is to the
the opportunit
they themselves or their children
in various countries, it seems to
the intellectual leaders may suc¬
Austrian drama today. Keen
turbed, in pe¬
may be the victims of war the
ceed in showing the people that
me that it is urgent for intellect
and penetrating, brillant and
not interfere
wounded, the mutilated, the
they must stop was because
ual leaders everywhere to create
they should
subtle, a master of irony and
dead.
would be best for them to have
good will and a better under¬
that they sho¬
satire, yet sincere and full of
no was because they would
They must le
standing among the nations. A
The Quality of Love
benefit more from peace than
optimism, this master builder
war will affe¬
great campaign of education is
from war.
of the modern Austrian drama¬
home way or
"It is of very little value to
essential in that direction.
believe war
this Viennese man of letters
"We have seen that Socialism
Practical Pacificiem
preach love and the brotherhood
enemy, their
has impressed himself pro¬
has failed to meet the problems
of man, for it does not help.
Pacifism should not be senti¬
of war and peace effectively and
foundly upon the literature of
There are some people who be¬
Reich
has not exerted much of an influ¬
mental. That is useless. Paci¬
Austria in the face of innum¬
lieve that it is enough for them
ence either in the war or in the
Vesterday.
fists should not say that it is
crable difficulties.
to preach or to listen to ser¬
making of peace.
wrong to kill; that it is unethical
was packing
By the sheer force of his art,
mons on loving one's neighbor
We must realize, first of all
to destroy human life; that it is
try, we found
as themselves and that by this
that man is the worst of all ani¬
as it manifested itself in his
they have already discharged
immoral to commit such a crime;
mals the most cruel of them all,
apers publish
works, in masterpiece after
all their duties to their fellow¬
The difference between the hu¬
that other people suffer from
looked at
masterpiece, Dr. Arthur
such destruction, and that war
men.
man being and other animals is
Battle ot-
Schnitzler, a Jew, has won
The quality of selfs love
is terrible on that account.
that the human being possesses
50,000 men.
is not inherent in human beings
"Everybody knows that war is
stinction in Vienna, the very
such traits as joy at anoher's
Sain. And
and it is useless to demand
terrible; that it leaves dead and
misfortune. Animals have no
each victory
hotbed of antisemitism. He
of human beings to change that
maimed in its wake; that it de¬
such terrible traits.
our people
has surmounted many ob¬
which cannot be changed. Be¬
stros property, and retards what
"We must also realize that
heard that tho
stacles, combating prejudice
sides, it is not necessary at all.
is known as civilization. But
were drowned
while the human mind may be
I do not want people to love me.
cally, yet with firm determi¬
such methods of reasoning, such
"I was fille
improved by education the human
do not want their kisses.
arguments are of no avail. Human
recalled all th¬
soul cannot be improved for it
nation.
I don't think it necessary that
beings are not impressed by
other side did
cannot be changed. We may,
The following interview was
there should be too much love
them. Human beings do not
They too, re
therefore, hope that human
had in the study of this bril
among the nations.
change their nature on that
beings will some day become
dreds of thous
"The important thing is that
account.
wiser, but they cannot become
were slaughter
liant writer in Vienna:
Instead of timental paci¬
people should realize that the
better. Human beings are born
with horror the
fism it is essential to convince
must not wrong one another
gotists. They do not love one
which people
"What is becoming of Europe ?
them by education that peace
that they must not hurt or in¬
another unselishly they hatte
those
said Schnitzler. "The hate which
jure one another. The important
would benefit them and save
When, for
one another.
has been intensified by the war
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