The Brown Book

1871 (probable)

Overview

Notes associated with Carl Wittgenstein contrast what Wagner calls Romanic and Jesuit pessimism with Germanic and Protestant hopes for improvement. They also connect aristocratic decline with arrogance and perfidy.

Content

1871 (probable):

The Jesuit general (after Carl Wittgenstein) against Bismarck. Romanic-Jesuitical: frivolous pessimism. — Germanic-Protestant: discreetly concerned belief in the development of good tendencies.

Romanic — — as nothing remains finally of aristocracy but arrogance and with it, perfidy, so with the Romance person who has finally lost his gifts. C.W.