Re: Is Austria Germany?
Deutschland I associate historically with Otto von Bismarck's unifying effort of Deutsche; a result of Prussian magnitude among other things.
Österreich I associate historically with the Hapsburgian monarchy.
From that point of view, they are two nations, not one.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West
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