AtDtDA23: Into the Folk-Dream

[Dave Monroe]

On 11/29/07, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > "Forty years later on, on their own plunge through Deep Germany,
> > into the folk-dream behind the Black Forest ..." (AtD, Pt. III, p.
> > 661)
> >
> >
> > Deep Germany
>
> From "The New York Times Current History of the European War" (1915)
> (http://books.google.com/books?id=k1sMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA138&dq=%22deep+germany%22):
>
> We fight for the strong, deep Germany of old, the Germany of music and
> of philosophy, against this monstrous modern aberration the Germany of blood
> and of iron, the Germany from which, instead of the old things of beauty,
> there come to us only the rant of scolding professors with their final
> reckonings, their Weltpolitik, and their Godless theories of the Superman
> who stands above morality and to whom all humanity shall be subservient.
> Instead of the world-inspiring phrases of a Goethe or a Schiller, what are
> the words in the last decade which have been quoted across the sea? Are they
> not always the ever-recurring words of wrath from one ill-balanced man?

Thanks!  I obviously rushed that one out, but I was afraid something'd
happen and I'd NEVER get the rest of this going, so ...