01 Thursday Jun 2017
Tags
Books, collecting, german, geschichte, history, ideas, prussia
Today I received a copy of Der Tag ist Angebrochen! in the post, via AbeBooks as usual.
2nd edition, 1852, a little tatty but solid. I’m confident that it will provide the opportunity for a few more blogposts yet…
*Edit: Now sandwiched in my bookcase between Bismarck’s Gedanken und Erinnerungen and a book of his speeches. You can feel the spinning in the Bismark Mausoleum.
19 Friday May 2017
I found a not particularly flattering reference to “Der Tag ist angebrochen!” by Rudolph Dulon in “Briefwechsel des Generals Leopold von Gerlach mit dem Bundestags-Gesandten Otto von Bismarck” (20th May 1852).
Upon reading it, not only can I see why they were unimpressed, but also that Mencius Moldbug may have a point…
From Chapter 3, “Der Tag der Erkenntnis”:
Ihr seid Diener des Volks, unterworfen seinem Willen. Wollt ihr mehr sein, so ist das gegen Gottes Willen und gegen sein heilige Ordnung.
See, you can’t argue with Democracy, it’s the will of God.
