Nothing Great In The World Has Ever

Reading The Morning Newspaper Is The Realist's Morning . One Orients One's Attitude Toward The Either By Or By What The World Is. The Former Gives As Much Security As The Latter, In That One Knows How One Stands.

We Assert Then That Nothing Has Been Accomplished Without Interest On The Part Of The Actors; And — If Interest Be Called Passion, Inasmuch As The Whole Individuality, To The Neglect Of All Other Actual Or Possible Interests And Claims, Is Devoted To An Object With Every Fibre Of Volition, Concentrating All Its Desires And Powers Upon It — We May Affirm Absolutely That Nothing Great In The World Has Been Accomplished Without Passion.

The Proofs Of The Existence Of God Are To Such An Extent Fallen Into Discredit That They Pass For Something Antiquated, Belonging To Days Gone By.

The East Knew And To The Present Day Knows Only That One Is Free; The Greek And The Roman World, That Some Are Free; The German World Knows That All Are Free. The First Political Form Therefore Which We Observe In History, Is Despotism, The Second Democracy And Aristocracy, The Third, Monarchy.

The True Is The Whole. But The Whole Is Nothing Other Than The Essence Consummating Itself Through Its Development. Of The Absolute It Must Be Said That It Is Essentially A Result, That Only In The End Is It What It Truly Is; And That Precisely In This Consists Its Nature, Viz. To Be Actual, Subject, The Spontaneous Becoming Of Itself.