The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown.

  • Brown, Haydn, 1864-1936.
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[1915]
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Credit: The secret of human power / by Haydn Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    right to live as powerful and vigorous nations, entirely missing the fundamental principle that contrast is inevitable in the great scheme of creation, and is even neces¬ sary in order to prevent selfish aggrandise¬ ment. But they should have inwardly digested the simple words of warning uttered by Mommsen : “ Have a care, gentlemen, lest in this State, which has been at once a power in arms and in intelligence, the intelligence should vanish, and nothing but the pure military state should remain.” Even Treitschke described the Kaiser as “ a dangerous charlatan,” although these two cordially agreed with one another over the expression of Treitschke, “ We recognize as the civilizing majesty of war precisely what appears superficially to be brutality and inhumanity.” Thus do we again see the way in which “ honest people come by their own.” Resembling Nietzsche in pervert respects Treitschke has exhibited that fatal failing of a pronounced dual personality, the tendency to “ blow hot and cold.” Bernhardi, the soldier, who also sought solace out of various philosophies to appease
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