. Modern and contemporary European history (1815-1921). of nationalism. A people divided in their alle-giance, as were the Germans, meant a people divided intheir energies. They exhausted themselves in fratricidalstrife and petty quarrels, with the result that they had noenergy left to struggle for democracy. The narrow atmos-phere of the little Germanies cramped their souls andstarved their national spirit. In despair they took to phil-osophy. For in the wide realm of metaphysics the Germanspirit could soar freely and majestically, knowing neitherthe constraint of boundaries nor the repressio
. Modern and contemporary European history (1815-1921). of nationalism. A people divided in their alle-giance, as were the Germans, meant a people divided intheir energies. They exhausted themselves in fratricidalstrife and petty quarrels, with the result that they had noenergy left to struggle for democracy. The narrow atmos-phere of the little Germanies cramped their souls andstarved their national spirit. In despair they took to phil-osophy. For in the wide realm of metaphysics the Germanspirit could soar freely and majestically, knowing neitherthe constraint of boundaries nor the repression of was then a common jest that whereas France ruled theland and England the sea, Germany ruled the Germans affected to despise the nationalism towhich they could not attain, and they became cosmopoli-tans, calling themselves citizens of the world. Thelove of country, declared the dramatist, Lessing, is asentiment which I do not understand. It is, as it seemsto me, at best a heroic infirmity which I am most happyin not It 18° 20 ) Abornholm Cj t -i a * S 1 J S~~•£ ^-Of \ ^Wl tjla»o 2 TiUitl Tj^r^ Oviw11?1 rvPiwSn Hand Is > 1 * )
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