Collection of Posthumous Articles, Vol. 2

K.’s mother was Russian, which is likely why K. did not become a foreigner. I do not think she took part in the upbringing of the children, but it was extremely important that the children were baptized in the Orthodox faith—that is to say, they had none at all. Had they been Lutherans or Catholics, they would have drifted completely to the German side; they would have attended one church or another and entered, unnoticed, into a distinct, separate Gemeinde community, with its parties and parish interests. Certainly, no one sent K. to a Russian church; furthermore, even if he did occasionally attend as a child, it does not possess that spider-web quality of its sisters, especially in a foreign land.

One must remember that the time of which I speak did not know the convulsions of Orthodoxy at all. The Church, like the State, did not defend itself then with whatever came to hand; it did not grow jealous of its rights, perhaps because no one was attacking. Everyone knew what kind of beasts these two were and did not put their fingers in their mouths. In return, they did not grab passersby by the collar, doubting their Orthodoxy or their loyalty to the throne. When a chair of theology was established at Moscow University, the old Professor Heim, memorable for his lexicons, spoke with horror in the university...

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