[Loom-auto] in deserts, or buried for ever under the fall of bad civilisations,

[Earnest Lowe]

 for some small but real reason, than pursued with love on account of
all kinds of qualities which I do not possess and which I do not desire.
And when the Germans get their first genuine glimpse of what modern
England is like, they will discover that England has a very broken,
belated and inadequate sense of having an obligation to Europe, but no
sort of sense whatever of having any obligation to Teutonism. This is
the last and strongest of the Prussian qualities we have here
considered. There is in stupidity of this sort a strange slippery
strength: because it can be not only outside rules but outside reason.
The man who really cannot see that he is contradicting himself has a
great advantage in controversy; though the advantage breaks down when he
tries to reduce it to simple addition, to chess, or to the game called
war. It is the same about the stupidity of the one-sided kinship. The
drunkard who is quite certain that a total stranger is his long-lost
brother, has a greater advantage until it comes to matters of detail.
"We must have chaos within," said Nietzsche, "that we may give birth to
a dancing star." In these slight notes I have suggested the principal
strong points of the Prussian character. A failure i
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