An Age of Expectation

How Herman Grimm manages to show how the intellectual life takes hold of everything, and he himself is such a representative mind. He continues: ”It was not his victories, his political successes, that were first remembered, but what was peaceful in the emperor. His mildness. His even-handed justice. It is wonderful how, in the judgment of the nations, even with warlike princes and rulers, what they did for peaceful development ultimately receives the most light. How, in the case of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, admiring consideration of their organizational activity already outweighs that of their military deeds."