[7]. At the present time one would say “in combating social misery, in ennobling and elevating the masses, in ethicalizing all classes” (Ethisierung aller Stände).—B. S.
[8]. Yet how singeing hot these rays are still burning in the Transvaal and in Manchuria! (Observation of 1908.)—B. S.
[9]. This is the case even to-day (1908).—B. S.
[10]. The first series of massacres extended from October 3, 1895, to January 1, 1896. On the part of the Armenians, as is shown by documentary evidence, there was no provocation whatever. In spite of that, 85,000 people were killed, about 2300 cities and villages were laid waste, more than 100,000 Christians were compulsorily converted to Islam, and 500,000 were reduced to starvation.—B. S.
[11]. Der Geiger, or rather Der Geigenmacher, von Cremona, a one-act opera by Hans Trneček, born May 16, 1858, at Prague. Text by Leopold Günther, after Coppée. First produced at the Court Theater of Schwerin, April 16, 1886.—Translator.
[12]. In 1904 Mr. Nepluief called upon me in Vienna. He had remained faithful to himself and his apostleship. He had also succeeded in interesting the Czarina in it. It was his desire that the peace societies everywhere should establish such fraternities among the common people; but, to say nothing of other objections, these societies, above all, lack the means for doing so.
[13]. Our old friend the literary Hotspur, so full of mettle, from Munich, recently elected to the Reichstag.
[14]. Erkel Ferenz (1810–1893), creator of the national Hungarian opera. Bank-Ban is regarded as his best work.—Translator.
[15]. As a contrast to this idea (Hebt den Grund der Armut auf!), which is not current among philanthropic financiers, I append the following letter:
My dear Baroness: