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ways of being german, 1916

Is Britain growing more German?

"The young man's sedulous blue eyes looked out of his pink face through his glasses at Mr. Direck, anxious for any light he could offer upon the atmospheric vagueness of this England.

He was, he explained, a student of philology preparing for his doctorate. He had not yet done his year of military service. He was studying the dialects of East Anglia--

"You go about among the people?" Mr. Direck inquired.

"No, I do not do that. But I ask Mr. Carmine and Mrs. Britling and the boys many questions. And sometimes I talk to the gardener."

He explained how he would prepare his thesis and how it would be accepted, and the nature of his army service and the various stages by which he would subsequently ascend in the orderly professorial life to which he was destined. He confessed a certain lack of interest in philology, but, he said, "it is what I have to do." And so he was going to do it all his life through. For his own part he was interested in ideas of universal citizenship, in Esperanto and Ido and universal languages and such-like attacks upon the barriers between man and man. But the authorities at home did not favour cosmopolitan ideas, and so he was relinquishing them. "Here, it is as if there were no authorities," he said with a touch of envy.

Mr. Direck induced him to expand that idea.

Herr Heinrich made Mr. Britling his instance. If Mr. Britling were a German he would certainly have some sort of title, a definite position, responsibility. Here he was not even called Herr Doktor. He said what he liked. Nobody rewarded him; nobody reprimanded him. When Herr Heinrich asked him of his position, whether he was above or below Mr. Bernard Shaw or Mr. Arnold White or Mr. Garvin or any other publicist, he made jokes. Nobody here seemed to have a title and nobody seemed to have a definite place. There was Mr. Lawrence Carmine; he was a student of Oriental questions; he had to do with some public institution in London that welcomed Indian students; he was a Geheimrath--

"Eh?" said Mr. Direck.

"It is--what do they call it? the Essex County Council." But nobody took any notice of that. And when Mr. Philbert, who was a minister in the government, came to lunch he was just like any one else. It was only after he had gone that Herr Heinrich had learnt by chance that he was a minister and "Right Honourable...."

"In Germany everything is definite. Every man knows his place, has his papers, is instructed what to do...."

"Yet," said Mr. Direck, with his eyes on the glowing roses, the neat arbour, the long line of the red wall of the vegetable garden and a distant gleam of cornfield, "it all looks orderly enough."

"It is as if it had been put in order ages ago," said Herr Heinrich.

"And was just going on by habit," said Mr. Direck, taking up the idea."
[Quoted from Mr. Britling sees it through by H.G. Wells, pp 37-38]

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Mr. Britling sees it through by H.G. Wells, first published in 1916
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the history of the naked monkey - churchill said...

I see Daniel Hannan banging on that Winston Churchill wanted the new arrangement that Theresa May is apparently outlining with the EUSSR.

At about 1400, there were two popes, one in France and one in Rome (more detail in the 16th Ecumenical Council). The French lot sainted Charlemagne, but eventually Rome won out.
All the edicts of the French lot were cancelled.
All Barack Obama's edicts are to be cancelled by Donald Trump.

A couple of saints (Bridget and Catherine of Sienna) claimed that Mary visited them and said she wanted the papacy be in Rome.

Now Mr Churchill is telling Daniel Hannan that he wants a Swiss Brexit.

I have looked at Churchill's comments on the EUSSR, and he did not seem to have any fixed view of the situation.

It is useful when god, or Mary, or Churchill, bring messages from the astral plane.

And you wonder why I spend my life in constant amusement!

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