We probably support the development and maturing of democratic
institutions: they enhance weakness of the will: in socialism we see a thorn
that protects against comfortableness.
Position toward peoples. Our preferences; we pay attention to the results
of interbreeding.
Apart, wealthy, strong: irony at the expense of the "press" and
its culture. Worry lest scholars become journalistic. We feel contemptuous
of every kind of culture that is compatible with reading, not to speak of
writing for, newspapers.
We take our accidental positions (like Goethe, Stendhal), our
experiences, as foreground and stress them to deceive about our depths. We
ourselves are waiting and beware of staking our hearts on them. They serve
us as hostels for a night, which a wanderer needs and accepts-we beware of
settling down.
We are ahead of our fellow men in possessing a disciplina voluntaris. All
strength applied to development of strength of the will, an art that permits
us to wear masks, an art of understanding beyond the affects (also to think
in a "supra-European" way, at times).
Preparation for becoming the legislators of the future, the masters of
the earth, at least our children. Basic concern with marriages.
