Excerpt from The War and Culture: A Reply to Professor Mu?nsterberg

Professor Munsterberg's book, entitled "The War and America," claims to lift the controversy about this war out of the unworthy region of bitter and personal recrimination, into the nobler atmosphere of large political ideas and great world-movements. His contention is, that, judged from this standpoint, the war must put Germany, in the eyes of all justice-loving Americans, in a better and more appealing position than the Allies.

With this end in view Professor Munsterberg sweeps aside all the reports about German brutality and German vandalism and concentrates his attention upon two main propositions: First, that Germany's preparations for the war were purely defensive; second, that Germany's defeat in the war would mean a devastating blow for culture, and a disastrous set-back to the best interests of humanity. With regard to those acts of German vandalism which he sweeps out of his path, Professor Munsterberg has only one word to say: "Is there any truth in all this?

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