Demoniac Man

‘German man is the supreme example of demoniac man. Demoniac indeed seems the abyss which cannot be filled, the yearning which cannot be assuaged, the thirst which cannot be slaked..’

The word demoniac [damonisch] is used in its Greek sense - as it was understood by Goethe and by Ziegler - 'pertaining to the nature of supernatural power’ ; it is not used in its usual English sense of 'diabolical’.

Leopold Ziegler from Das Heilige Reich Der Deutschen 1925.