Showing posts with label Os Guinness. Show all posts
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Monday, July 29, 2019

Three responses to evil

Three existential responses to evil, according to Os Guinness:

Last call

Last Call
By Os Guinness

The name Moltke had resounded proudly through two centuries of Prussian and German history. Count Helmuth Carl Bernhard von Moltke had been Chancellor Bismarck's field marshal and the terrible, swift sword wielded in his crushing German victories over the Danes, the Austrians, and the French. The field marshal's greatest est triumph, the destruction of the French Imperial Army at Sedan in 1871, had led to the capture of Paris and the creation of the German Empire.