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Secret Method -- I think we actually agree, it's just that our emphases are somewhat different. I was discussing this with roommates and a friend last night, and that's the conclusion we came to. A Calvinist upbringing will affect one! Just for the record, the group was four graduate students at the most important Catholic university in the US (Go Fighting Irish! ), two of whom are theology students (there's a very thin line between a ninth year theology student and a PhD, mostly consisting of three letters). The joys of source comparison...

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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."

"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche