A Fragment
Mankind is of a less terrestrial mould than some would have
him to be. He has an element of the divine which the practical politician ignores. The practical politician looks to the position
at the moment and imagines that he has taken everything into consideration. He has indeed studied the surface and the immediate surroundings, but he has missed what lies beyond material vision. He has left out of account the divine, the incalculable in
man, that element which upsets the calculations of the schemer and disconcerts the wisdom of the diplomat.
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