On earthly designs

I'm watching news about the university protests this morning, and this passage from Shakespeare comes to mind, "tortive and errant from his course of growth." The People of the Book could take a page or two from the master, if you ask me.

I know almost nothing about World War II and Adolf Hitler, but I did read several pages of Mein Kampf, where he explains why he took up his cause against the Jews. It was communism and what happened in Russia (and eventually Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, etc.). He says, "If these people, who live only for this world, should end up possessing the earth, it will become a lifeless cinder orbiting the sun, like it was millions of years ago. So I feel that my actions are in accord with the Divine Will." I'm paraphrasing but that's the gist of it. So purely on that score, the Six Million Dead Jews, or whatever it was, I find no fault in the guy, quite the contrary.

French Academy:
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But to the end we confound not together that which is simply divine, with that which is human, I think we ought to make a double hope; the first true, certain, and infallible, which concerns holy and sacred mysteries; the other doubtful, respecting earthly things only.

Troilus and Cressida:
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The ample proposition that hope makes
In all designs begun on earth below
Fails in the promised largeness. Checks and disasters
Grow in the veins of actions highest reared,
As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infects the sound pine and diverts his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.

I haven't forgotten the previous post, I have to work on it today.