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The Deeper Causes of the War

The Deeper Causes of the War

Hovelaque, Emile

Paperback

General World History

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ISBN10: 1151330418
ISBN13: 9781151330413
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 28
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... II THEORY OF THE REAL We reach here the vital germ of Germany's philosophy of action, the root principle that feeds her will to power, determines her evolution, and inspires her with boundless confidence and daring. This conception of the real which dominates her politics, her diplomacy, and all the forms of her activity, is not merely the outcome of abstract thought, a dogma elaborated by the realists, who have ever been the cynical artisans of her greatness; it is something more than a magical receipt that realizes the crushing superiority of her commerce, her industry, her army; it is the expression of her soul's obscurest instincts, and, so to say, the consciousness of the living forces that created her. No theory was ever more fruitful in consequences, nor could any more clearly reveal the workings of Germany's mind in the domain of action. Its importance is supreme, and even if we prick our fingers on a few metaphysical thorns it must be expounded. The origins of this philosophy and theory, so purely Germanic in nature, are, moreover, extremely clear, and their developments can easily be traced. Fichte was the first of German thinkers to set them forth, with unrivalled power and completeness. In his eyes the Divine idea of the world, of which the visible universe is merely a symbol, of which appearances and created things are merely a garment and a sign, which alone truly exists, reveals itself only to the inspired who have eyes to discern it, souls to possess it, and live in it wholly. It is the condition of all virtue, of all liberty, all knowledge, all true action. By a privilege granted to none other, and which he owes to his soul, the home of the Universal, to his language, which alone, differing in that from the NeoLatin tongues, keeps in its Germa...

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