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...Throne & Altar. Dibelius was born in Berlin, the son of a high government official in a Germany prosperous, pious and proud. It was 1880, just nine years after Count Otto von Bismarck had Wilhelm I crowned Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors of the defeated French at Versailles. The Dibeliuses were a family of civil servants and clergymen -an uncle of Otto's was court chaplain to the King of Saxony-and he was brought up, as he tells it, "in the Reich tradition." The hero of his student days at the University of Berlin was "Bismarck...
...churchman, in those days, had a life as secure as an imperial bureaucrat. Ever since the 16th century, when Luther invoked the help of German princes to fight off the dominion of Rome, the union of Throne and Altar had been a cardinal tenet of German Protestantism. The Kaiser in Berlin was the church's "Supreme Bishop," pledged to govern his country as a Christian king...
...Marxists in the pursuit of my work, I had long since concluded that the whole key to their thinking is in no sense reason but rather a religious faith. They not only believe that man is perfectible, but in a very real sense they have placed themselves above the altar at which they worship...
...windswept hill called Sacro Monte, just outside Granada (pop. 141,000), lies one of the oldest settlements of gypsies in all of Spain. There, after four centuries, the gypsies still live in caves; but each cave has its altar, and each altar its special photograph, beside the Virgin's image, surrounded by red carnations. The name of the man in the picture is a revered one on Sacro Monte: Father Andres Manjor...
...Citizen Robespierre had just set up an altar to human reason in Paris. Little Desiree Clary of Marseille, though only 14, was a true daughter of the revolution, and, in her diary, brought all the power of her reason to the solution of a world problem. Her estimate of the situation: "A woman can usually get what she wants from a man if she has a well-developed figure." Her decision: "To stuff four handkerchiefs into the front of my dress tomorrow...