The Mantle of Caesar (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Gundolf, Friedrich

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330464354 ISBN 13 : 9781330464359

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Germany, the guidance of the people is entrusted to any striking talent in the military-economic field, so long as it can occupy office or show literary ability jand when parsons of social tendencies and generals of unsocial tendencies, or giants of acquisition and industry, as well as rabid petty bourgeois individuals, are considered statesmen we should like to recall to the minds of those of hasty judgment the great man to whom the supreme authority owes its name and for centuries its guiding thought: Caesar. We do not suppose for a moment that conjuring this name will produce aC aesar. History never repeats the manifestation of her ideas, constant though they may remain, and no knowledge of the past will create what is needed in the present. Imitations based on political erudition are always misguided and fruitless. We shall know what countenance our future lord or savior will bear, only when he is already in the saddle. His hour and his task he alone will know. But learning may teach us what countenance he will not bear, and the eternal figures must be kept alive and defended against the claims of the dark and dismal present, not for the sake of politics, but for the sake of culture, that is, for the sake of human dignity and awe. The historian, the guardian of culture (for that is his chief office), cannot very well engage in poH ficlT or adopt pregnant decisions in the fast flow of destiny from hour to hour. But he can help animate the atmosphere in which deeds of insight shall be accomplished, and can recruit adherents for the heroes that are to come. In this sense, he invokes the historical forces and their incarnations: the nations and their leaders.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330464354
• ISBN 13: 9781330464359
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 322
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