We shall purify that idea by identifying it with the nation of Israel, which has become its own Messiah. “Our mission consists in promulgating the new law and in creating a God that is to say in purifying the idea of God and realizing it when the time shall come. Patrick Henry had observed that “ Good faith is essential to the happiness of mankind” and “ That its want stops all human intercourse.” When the entails of a moral relativism in which each individual is only doing what’s right in his own eyes reaches its terminus, the hitherto behind-the-scenes chosen tribe and their father, along with their traitorous allies, can then come forward to assume the mantle over a mankind that has become cultureless, and openly reveal themselves and their mission: It should be self-evident that society can’t function in the absence of an absolute standard to which all are at least tacitly consenting. Inauthentic existence is at the end of this fuse, where, as Dostoyevsky rightly observed, “ everything’s permissible” and every anti-Christian assertion has equal validity. In 180-degree opposition, the anti-philosophy of “seeming” is evidenced in the Yankee Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’s theory that law is experience, not logic. It was Alfred von Schlieffen who coined the apothegm, “ Great achievements, small display: more reality than appearance” and Moltke who had said that “ Only the capable succeed.” These were at the core of the German and Christian work ethic in the roots of my upbringing. It’s what it appears to be” and thinking even then (some thirty-odd years ago) how at odds such a credo was with everything I’d been taught by my father. I remember an executive vice president of a company for which I used to work saying: “ It’s not what is. This is a new Latin phrase for me, but it has given me much food for thought. to be, rather than to seem) is the motto of North Carolina and, ironically, a number of institutions of higher learning.
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