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For it was a heavy disadvantage on the eve of the most exhausting struggle ever entered upon by the French people, whose strongest position was weakened as no enemy could have weakened it. Russia was in a different, but nowise better, position when suddenly called upon to meet the onerous demands of the world-contest.
Costly has been the achievement; lavish has been the expenditure of German blood, severe the sufferings of the German people. It is the lot of all who aspire high no man or nation ever was dandled into greatness. The Thirty Years' War was a real world-contest. Austria and Spain drew after them all the powers of reaction; all the powers of liberty and progress were arrayed on the other side.
Also in the long run the surrender is futile, for he MUST evolve: and if he has slipped down, then so much further has he again to climb. The antagonist of Materialism in the world-contest is Spirit, and the organising and marshalling of the spiritual forces has been the province of religion in general.
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