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[Derouchie J. <tra...@at...>]

_ of the godhead imply?--To be sure, the "kingdom of God" has thus grown
larger. Formerly he had only his own people, his "chosen" people. But
since then he has gone wandering, like his people themselves, into
foreign parts; he has given up settling down quietly anywhere; finally
he has come to feel at home everywhere, and is the great
cosmopolitan--until now he has the "great majority" on his side, and
half the earth. But this god of the "great majority," this democrat
among gods, has not become a proud heathen god: on the contrary, he
remains a Jew, he remains a god in a corner, a god of all the dark nooks
and crevices, of all the noisesome quarters of the world!... His earthly
kingdom, now as always, is a kingdom of the underworld, a _souterrain_
kingdom, a ghetto kingdom.... And he himself is so pale, so weak, so
_decadent_.... Even the palest of the pale are able to master
him--messieurs the metaphysicians, those albinos of the intellect. They
spun their webs around him for so long that finally he was hypnotized,
and began to spin himself, and became another metaphysician. Thereafter
he resumed once more his old business of spinning the world out of his
inmost being _sub specie Spinozae_; thereafter he became ever thinner
and paler--became the "ideal," became "pure spirit," became "the
absolute," became "the thing-in-itself."... _The collapse of a god_: he
became a "thing-in-itself." 18. The Christian concept of a god--th