Denmark has enriched our educational experience by the establishment of her famous high schools, which we can hardly imagine her doing had she been a province of Prussia; Norway has given us the greatest of modern dramatists, Henrik Ibsen; and Belgium has not only produced Maeterlinck and Verhaeren, but is industrially the most highly developed country on the continent.

The world cannot afford to do without her small peoples, who must be either independent or autonomous if they are to find adequate expression for their national genius, if they are to obtain proper conditions in which "to live, think, love, and labour for the benefit of all." Can we guarantee to them this freedom?
That is one of the great questions which this war will settle.[4] [Footnote 1: See _Selections from Treitschke_, translated by A.L.

Gowans, pp.

17-20, 58-61.] [Footnote 2: See _Selections from Treitschke_, pp.

17-20, 58-61.] [Footnote 3: _The Expansion of England_, p.349.See also p.