Note 170 — Chapter IV · THE PROBLEM OF WORLD-HISTORY

Hardenberg’s reorganization of Prussia was thoroughlythoroughly English in spirit, and as such incurred the severe censure of the old Prussian Von der Marwitz. Scharnhorst’s army reforms too, as a breakaway from the professional army system of the eighteenth-century cabinet-wars, are a sort of “return to nature” in the Rousseau-Revolutionary sense.