Nothing but the most powerful common interests could have drawn the dissevered halves of Germany together.
A common war against a common enemy now appeared the surest means of welding the dissevered halves of Germany together, and for this war Bismarck steadily prepared.
Greek culture had been the product of the city-state, and Hellenism could not be dissevered from the city.
Here they are supposed to exist, dissevered from experience, and are allowed validity as determinations of things in themselves.
They did not serve as the connecting links of formed experience; on the contrary, they were supposed to be absolutely dissevered from all experience which was possible for intelligence like ours.
