English Translation

- 2 - 11 the north are acknowledgable about the Hohenzollern and their co- d d d of state ethos, which is certainly based on Lutheran foundations, has only received its special aggravation through Calvinism. It is unmistakable that this shot of Calviniemus gave the Prussians its fanatic patriotism, its hostile brilliance to all compromises. It was not to be overlooked, however, that he prevented Prussia from gaining in the human being that psychic breadth, the equal of human virtues, which are the prerequisite of leadership. I see the failure of precisely Prussian state art in areas that are at risk or undeveloped in terms of population policy, above all in the fact that this state will, oriented according to principles - and not according to people - failed to cope with the problems of human leadership. If he did not succeed in establishing the friend-friend relationship that he wanted for political reasons, he fell into the much more lying Katego-rie Freund-eneind. But in order to be able to fight enemies, one usually does not need to join new territories; if one groups them to one's own country, this means that one wants to or should win them and their people for an order that is to be created by the whole state. With the word pair "friend-friend" ratio, the keyword that matters to me has now fallen. We as political people have a very peculiar, little developed and i.e. quite undifferentiated relationship with our friends. The historical friendship of Prussia-Russia, which has already been established around l700, is based on the fact that we fully support the respective official Russia and refrain from any attempt to look behind the scenes. Sehon Peter the Great was sacrosanct in contemporary German publicism. He was considered to be the model of a refined European monarch. From then on, the German science has almost completely adhered to the official face of the petrinic and post-petric Russia. The consequences were evident in the first world war: probably hardly has. a science which had so much missed the reality had wié the German Eastern science before 19l4. Basically, Russia saw a half-brother of Prussia, - 3 -