[17] Geistigkeit. This is a difficult word to translate. It sometimes means merely intellectuality, sometimes in addition (as here) all that is implied in the phrase, "Ye know not what manner of spirit (οιου πνευματος ) ye are of."
[18] Referring to Werner Sombart's war-book, Händler und Helden.
[19] Cf. Thomas Mann's remarkable book on the real significance of the war: Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen (1918).
[20] Sachlichkeit. Rathenau seems to have in mind the German feeling for disinterested study and research as illustrated, for instance, by the fact that when the German Government heard of the genius of Einstein they brought him to Berlin with a salary of nearly £1000 a year and no duties except to think. Modern bigotry has expelled him.
[21] Where Kant lived and taught, and published his Kritik der reinen Vernunft.
[22] As opposed to the inward, intellectual and spiritual character.
[23] Stein was the chief leader of Prussia from the Frederician into the modern era. His ministry of reform by which a peasant-proprietary was established, and municipal institutions created, lasted only from September 1807 to November 1808.
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On balance it seems that the endowments of the German people work out as follows:—