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Otho (search for this): chapter 3
n on each side of the Alps, the House of Saxony, under the headship of Henry the Fowler, than whom, according to a wise historian, Waitz. Germany never had a greater or a worthier king, restored union and order to the Teutonic nation. His son, Otho the First, having in a reign of a quarter of a century riveted Germany still more closely together and secured its borders against hostile races, was invited by the pope to pass the Alps for the pacification of Italy; and one hundred and forty-eig Kingdoms collectively greater than his own, and independent of him,—Hungary, France, Spain, Portugal, England,—could never acknowledge his supremacy over a church which claimed to be catholic. Yet, as if his twofold dominion had been permanent, Otho sought to balance the power of his princely feudatories by that of the bishops, who were likewise bound to send vassals to his army. The annexation of the crown of Italy to that of Germany, while it opened to the latter many avenues to culture, w
Walch (search for this): chapter 3
essor of St. Peter and the vicar of Christ to remit the sins alike of the living and of the dead. Decretal of 9 Nov., 1518, on remission of suins. In German in Walch's Luther's Werke, XV 757, et seq. All absolute power brings its holders, first or last, to perdition: absolute power over mind, conquered from the emperor and a ruler indulges the conceit that he is a prince, not for the sake of his subjects, but for the sake of his beautiful golden hair, he belongs among the heathen. Walch's Luther's Werke, x. 604. A Christian prince is not a person for himself, but a servant for others. The prince must think, I belong to the land and the people, andear lord, dear lady, it does not belong to you to make such a demand. Predigt, Die Lehre von dem Verhalten gegen die Obrigkeit, Luther's sammtliche Schriften, ed. Walch, XIII. 2225. And again: All bishops that take the right of judgment of doctrine from the sheep are certainly to be held as murderers and thieves, wolves and aposta
Wallenstein (search for this): chapter 3
United States, II. 284. just three weeks before his fall at Lutzen, recommended to Germans colonization in America as a blessing to the Protestant world. In pursuance of the design of the Swedish king, the chancellor Oxenstiern, in April, 1633, as we have seen, called on the German people te send from themselves emigrants to America. In December the upper four German circles confirmed the charter, and under its sanction a Protestant colony was planted on the Delaware. What monument has Wallenstein left like this on the Delaware to Gustavus? The thirty years war was not a civil war: had the Germans been left to themselves, the reformation would have been peacefully embraced by nine-tenths of them. It was by hordes of other races and tongues that the battle of Jesuit reaction was fought. While France was rent in pieces by bloody and relentless feuds, Germany enjoyed a half century of prosperous peace, and with its kindred in the Netherlands and Switzerland formed the first natio
Newton (search for this): chapter 3
suit reaction was fought. While France was rent in pieces by bloody and relentless feuds, Germany enjoyed a half century of prosperous peace, and with its kindred in the Netherlands and Switzerland formed the first nation in the world. Its universities, relieved from monastic traditions, taught not theology alone, but the method of the right use Chap. II.} of reason, and sciences pregnant with modern culture. Kepler, a republican of Weil, the continuator of Copernicus, the forerunner of Newton, revealed the laws of the planetary motions. No part of Europe had so many industrious, opulent, and cultivated free cities, while the empire kept in use the forms and developed the language of constitutional government. The terrible thirty years effort to restore the old superstition crushed the enlightened middle class of Germany, destroyed its Hanseatic confederacy, turned its commerce into other channels, ruined its manufactures, arrested its progress in the arts, dismembered its pub
Christ (search for this): chapter 3
nce of God which was to endure to the end of time, so that every prophecy might be fulfilled and Christ become the lord of the whole earth. Leo the Third recognised in him the sovereignty over every ingdoms confessed his inheritance to be merely an illusion: the pope represented the kingship of Christ, which was owned throughout Christendom to be by right without bounds. The home of the emperor mber, 1518, Pope Leo the Tenth affirmed his power as the successor of St. Peter and the vicar of Christ to remit the sins alike of the living and of the dead. Decretal of 9 Nov., 1518, on remission office-holder. Ibid. The pope is our school-fellow; there is but one master, and his name is Christ in heaven; and, collecting all in one great formulary of freedom, he declared: Justification is om the sheep are certainly to be held as murderers and thieves, wolves and apostate Christians. Christ gives the right of judgment to the scholars and sheep. St. Paul will have no doctrine or propos
Leo (search for this): chapter 3
\ teleuth\sasin, . . . ai= tw=n e)kei= kakw=n a)polu/ousin h(ma=s mn qu/sanras de\ deina\ perime/nei. Plato, Republic, book II. ch. VII. e)kei= is not adequately rendered by hell. Jowett's Plato, II. 186. The method practised on a small scale by vagabond prophets in Athens was formed by the papal see into a system for the world; and it filled its treasury by an organized traffic in indulgences and promises of pardon here and beyond the grave. In a decretal of the ninth of November, 1518, Pope Leo the Tenth affirmed his power as the successor of St. Peter and the vicar of Christ to remit the sins alike of the living and of the dead. Decretal of 9 Nov., 1518, on remission of suins. In German in Walch's Luther's Werke, XV 757, et seq. All absolute power brings its holders, first or last, to perdition: absolute power over mind, conquered from the emperor and continued for centuries, at last ruined, and could not but ruin, the moral and in- Chap. II.} tellectual faculties of th
George Eliot (search for this): chapter 3
e United States. 1778. the people who dwelt between the Alps and Chap. II.} the northern seas, between France and the Slaves, founded no colonies in America; but, in part, gave to the rising country its laws of being. Let us trace them to their origin, not recounting the annals of the German nation, but searching for the universal interests which the eternal Providence confided to their keeping. We spell the record of our long descent, More largely conscious of the life that is. George Eliot's Spanish Gipsy. The oldest monument of the Germans is their language, which, before untold centuries, was the companion of their travels from central Asia; a language, copious, elastic, inviting self-explaining combinations and independent development; lending itself alike to daily life and imagination, to description and abstract thought. They had a class of nobles, Waitz, Deutsche Verfassungs Geschichte, i. 86. but their tongue knew no word for slave. Chap. II.} The earliest f
Gelzer (search for this): chapter 3
reserving their love of rural life, they appropriated much of the Chap. II.} very best land from the Mohawk to the valley of Virginia. At the close of the thirty years war, Brandenburg had for its elector, Prussia for its duke, a prince by birth and education of the reformed church, trained in the republic of the Netherlands. In my rule, said the young man, on first receiving homage, I will always bear in mind that it is not my affair which I administer, but the affair of my people. Gelzer's Aufgaben, 2. Consciences, he owned, belong to God; no worldly potentate may force them. Pfleiderer's Leibnitz, 523. So when the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in October, 1685, drove out of France a half million of the best of the French nation, the noble company of exiles found a new country, partly with the Great Elector, and partly with the Protestant colonies in America. The same revolution of 1688, which excluded Papists from the throne of England, restored liberty to the co
Amerika (search for this): chapter 3
ck beheld in the American war the inspiration of humanity and the dawn of an approaching great day. He loved the terrible spirit which emboldens the peoples to grow conscious of their power. With proud joy he calls to mind that, among the citizens of the young republic, there were many Germans, who gloriously fulfilled their duty in the war of freedom. By the rivers of America, he wrote, light beams forth to the nations, and in part from Germans. Klopstock's Oden, Sie und nicht wir, An Amerika's Strome, &c., &c. Compare Der Freiheitskrieg, Der Furst und sein Kebsweib, and Der jetzige Krieg; i.e., the war of 1778-1782. Less enthusiastic, but not less consistent, was Goethe. Of plebeian descent, by birth a republican, born like Luther in the heart of Germany, educated like Leibnitz in the central university of Saxony, when seven years old he and his father's house were partisans of Frederic, and rejoiced in his victories as the victories of the German nation. Goethe, Aus me
Gaul (search for this): chapter 3
man matron spoke the command, Turn back! Mommsen, Die Germanische Politik des Augustus, 556. and Roman organization never passed the southern and western skirts of their land. They became the hardiest nation in Europe. For four or five centuries some of their branches repelled their Latin invaders; and then, feeling their strength and inclining to roam, they overthrew the Western Empire; crossed the Mediterranean to Carthage; followed the setting sun to the ocean; gave to Aquitania and Gaul the name of one of their tribes; and mastered England and the lowland of the Scots. The territory more immediately and permanently occupied by the Germanic race bristled with sombre forests, and was parted by dismal morasses and pathless chains of mountains, which they had not sufficient mastery of nature to overcome. Broken into tribes in the wilderness, these emigrants from the same distant lands lost the tradition that they were brothers, and knew no more that they were one. From the
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