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But although the tale of this Teuton-all-too-Teuton scheme is probably a mere invention, German[y] did concoct and spread through the world a habit forming drug, and her leaders in this war have made good use of its ravages in other countries. More than half a century ago socialism was invented in Germany; and the rulers of the empire, foreseeing its vast possibilities in breaking down national morale, fostered its propagation abroad while they did their best to stamp out the habit at home. Meanwhile the inventive scientists were busy. Those who were becoming immune to the old Marxian formula were assaulted by neosocialism of the Lenine brand; and when the proper moment arrived the German armies walked through Russia as though through a nation of exhausted drug addicts. But in several important details the plan went wrong. The drugs would not work everywhere. Among the American people, for instance, whose systems had been toughened by their own home-made social panaceas no less than by their own patent medicines, the German philtres made but little impression. And presently there came a reaction. Morphine and cocaine and their like gain a hold because they offer greater initial attractions; the addict becomes lost in magnificently impossible dreams whose splendor for a long time seems worth the pain of awakening. Socialism could not be stamped out in Germany. Just as workmen in the tooth paste factories might have surreptitiously sampled the brands made for export only and found attractions not present in the products for the home market, so the Germans took to socialism and neosocialism. It is a rare poison that will not act on the system of its own inventor. |
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