The Christian faith can't be known as in as a Cinderella to solve a few worldly mess. […] Why should still a scheme of social reform be referred to as Christian if no precept unusual to Christianity is concerned? […] we needs to notice that the vigor of the Christian religion aren't at our disposal simply because we believe it might be a very good factor if it have been. hearken to this, Boston 1880! nine p 23 The kingdom may be defended and the typical reason rigorously and accurately served and protected through males who don't think in Christ. Cf. Stalin & the passion for commercial reform. 1 1 Santayana used to be studying Stalin in Togliatti’s Italian translation at the present: Questioni del Leninismo. See the access lower than. 10 p 29 ||The doctrine of obedience to the lessons of the Church. || this is often actual of excellent Catholic converts: e. g. Max Jacob. eleven cp forty two ||No secular philosophy has arisen in Europe to rival real faith. || Marx, Lenin, Stalin? don’t count number? 12 p forty six, marked ||Prussians proposal that civilians may be saved out of warfare. || the belief of a nation’s battle, tough the whole-hearted participation of each civilian, is kind of un-Prussian; the French Revolution proclaimed it, Robespierre’s pal, Saint simply, used to be its apostle. actual militance is unfastened; chosen and detailed. Even the Christian flock needs to be shepherded. thirteen p forty nine, most sensible cause is aristocratic like militancy, yet peaceable. It makes use of one typical strength to neutralise one other the place they clash. It so generates its order. 2:32 George Santayana’s Marginalia 14 p fifty three, marked The extraordinary factor in regards to the Reich was once that its nationalism bought interfused with the army traditions of Prussia. ||A few, Wilhelm I might be too, distrusted the Reich. || 15 p fifty three, underlined and marked The Reich, as much as a definite element, used to be Prussia, […] however it used to be a deflected and vulgarized Prussia, supported by way of mass-acclamation and allied with trade and the acquisitive spirit of the commercial age. […] The golden calf had by no means been worshipped in Prussia […]. Now the cult of Mammon used to be spreading swiftly. I take note my shock in 1886 on the luxurious in a personal residence in Göttingen. I had anticipated Spartan simplicity. sixteen p fifty four, marked ||Heine was once now not a real consultant of the bourgeois time and its lost self-confidence. || He dwelt in a distinct sector. Goethe’s wider impact used to be according to the misconceptions of his admirers. 17 p fifty five The German ‘Bildungsphilister’ the proficient bourgeois, welcomed the Reich frantically; they have been beside themselves with pleasure and self-satisfaction. There have been victory after victory and additional earnings have been nonetheless to come back; […]. As in Russia now, 1946. 18 p fifty seven because the fourteenth century Austria had borne the load and obligations of the Holy Roman Empire; she is for that reason equipped on imperial and never on nationwide foundations. this could were the overseas energy. 19 p fifty eight The seat of the Roman Empire whilst it grew to become Christian grew to become migratory. It used to be perfect. 20 p fifty eight [Meissner fees Frederick the good as of 1752:] ‘Prussia can't tolerate it that France should still lose Alsace or Lorraine.