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Dear God, did he not hear shooting at midnight? But they play with more than ghosts. Noske's politik will end in another color. To-night there are only shadows to shoot at. To-morrow ... remember what I tell you...." The telephone rang and Dorn answered. A voice in English: "The gentlemen will have to put out the lights. The Spartikusten are coming." "Thank you...." "What did he say?"
He will batter, destroy, slay. Gorman, my friend, it must not be." "Why the devil does he want to do it?" said Gorman. "Now don't say Real Politik or the Emperor. I simply can't believe that either one or the other would set that pirate shooting at us." "It is Real Politik, without doubt," said the King. "And it is the Emperor. But it is also me, me, Konrad Karl of Megalia.
But I am not a whale on the sea of Real Politik. Your whale is a fish that bores, always. Perhaps if you ask Fritz he will know." "By the way," said Donovan, "what's the man's real name?" "Once," said the King, "he was Calmet, M. de Calmet. At that time he was French. Later he was Heyduk, a Captain in the army of Megalia. Also he was Freidwig, and he came from Stockholm.
Alas! it was the Hohenzollern State which was to annex and subject the German Empire. Little did the Germans know Prussian tenacity. Little did they know the rapacity of the Black Eagle. Still less did they know the black magic of the necromancer Bismarck. Treitschke reminds us in his “Politik” of an incident which is characteristic of the relation of the German Empire to Prussia.
By 1960 or so the alteration of perspectives will have gone so far that historians will be a little perplexed to explain the causes of the Great War. The militarist monomania of Germany will have become incomprehensible; her Welt Politik literature incredible and unreadable.... Such is my reading of the German horoscope.
From Locke, that is to say, the subject of discussion is rather politik than staatslehre. The great debate inaugurated by the Reformation ceased when Locke had outlined an intelligible basis for parliamentary government. Hume, Bolingbroke, Burke, are all of them concerned with the detail of political arrangement in a fashion which presupposes the acceptance of a basis previously known.
Turn away now from national economics and industry to international politics. Does not its real politik make the philosophical naturalism of Spencer and Haeckel seem like child's play?
"One marvels that no one comes to clear up this country, one itches to be at the job, and then one realizes that before one can begin here, one must get to work back there, where the fools and pedants of WELT POLITIK scheme mischief one against another. This country frets me. I can't see any fun in it, can't see the humour of it.
See also A. Wolf and Hans von Zwiedineck-Suedenhorst, Oesterreich unter Maria Theresia . THE RISE OF PRUSSIA. History of All Nations, Vol. I , from earliest times through the Thirty Years' War, by the late general director of the Prussian State Archives, an eminent authority on the history of his country; J. G. Droysen, Geschichte der preussischen Politik, 14 vols.
They occupy themselves, that is to say, so completely with staatslehre that they do not admit the mollifying influence of politik. They search for principles of universal right, without the perception that a right which is to be universal must necessarily be so general in character as to be useless in its application. Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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