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- 20 - both separate. But the day came when the pure political despotism of Germany ceased to be weak, when one of the five hundred German princelings became a mighty despot. And a more fateful day came when the pure speculative idealism ceased to move in its own sphere and was enlisted in the service of that despotism. Then an awful thing happened. The positive pole and the negative pole of Germany came in contact. The explosion produced the present world catastrophe.