When One Is Engaged In A Desperate

When A Man Speaks Of The Need For Realism One May Be Sure That This Is Always The Prelude To Some Bloody Deed.

One Must Look At What Impiety Hates, What Puts It In A Rage, What It Attacks Always, Everywhere, And With Fury - That Will Be The Truth.

But To Manipulate Men, To Propel Them Toward Goals Which You-the Social Reformers-see, But They May Not, Is To Deny Their Human Essence, To Treat Them As Objects Without Wills Of Their Own, And Therefore To Degrade Them.

The Most Passionate, Consistent, Extreme And Implacable Enemy Of The Enlightenment And ... All Forms Of Rationalism ... Was Johann Georg Hamann. His Influence, Direct And Indirect, Upon The Romantic Revolt Against Universalism And Scientific Method ... Was Considerable And Perhaps Crucial.

The Very Desire For Guarantees That Our Values Are Eternal And Secure In Some Objective Heaven Is Perhaps Only A Craving For The Certainties Of Childhood Or The Absolute Values Of Our Primitive Past.