transformance

Updated: June 16, 2025

Unwilling or unable to adjust themselves to the phenomena of life, they choose death in preference to the compromise life. A leaning towards the tragic characterizes the German of to-day; an inclination not to compromise, not to admit defeat, thereby admitting the "will" to be incapable of transformance into actuality.

Thomas F. A. Smith - What Germany Thinks: The War as Germans see it