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The International Journal of the Royal Society of Thailand
The International Journal of the Royal Society of Thailand
Volume XIII – 2021
Volume XII, 2020

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This process had already begun long before his exile, starting with the famous
speech, “On the German Republic”, delivered in 1922, that marked his turn toward
and an electronic file as a text file (e.g. doc).
democracy. While he was working on the text, he studied Walt Whitman’s poems
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and essay, which suddenly provided Mann with a new perspective on America. In an
included in the main text file.
open letter to the translator, Thomas Mann called the German edition a “great, im-

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portant, indeed sacred gift.” Notes and marks in Thomas Mann’s copy show why.
consistent for the entire article.
Following his friend and teacher Emerson, Whitman discusses the democracy of
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young America as the model for a utopian union of humanity. And he notes, “I shall
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use the words America and democracy as convertible terms.” Immediately, this
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democratic universalism segues into something genuinely religious, as Thomas
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Mann underlines: “at the core of democracy, finally, is the religious element. All the
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religions, old and new, are there.” In his speech, Mann quotes this phrase and makes
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it his own. His turn to democracy in 1922, inspired by Whitman and Emerson, already
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pointed towards Unitarianism. Only he did not know it yet.

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Methods, Results and Conclusion
Thus, at the beginning of his American exile, it was only a question of time before
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his personal convictions, which were already similar to contemporary American
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Unitarianism, should assume a tangible shape. The time came in 1940 with Golo and
the text)
Heinrich Mann’s dangerous escape from Europe due to the help of the Unitarian
Service Committee. In 1954, Thomas Mann wrote reflectively that “In many ways I feel
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connected to the Unitarians, personally and intellectually.” Then he adds: “In her, all

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my four grandchildren have been baptized, both boys and girls”. Whenever his
It should not only indicate the general scope of the article but also state the main

relationship with the Unitarian church comes up, he never fails to mention this.
results and conclusions.
In 1942, he records in his diary that the ceremony had been conducted “by a
Ethical Guidelines
sensible clergyman in a pleasant and unassuming way.” In his book “The Making of

Experimental investigation papers must state in the Materials and
Doktor Faustus”, (Stewart, John L. (reviewer), 1951) he writes: The children “have been
Methods section that
1) informed consent was obtained from all adult participants and from
anointed as Christians in the Unitarian Church with a minimum of religious pretensions

in the most sensibly human ceremony.” So the ritual forms are “sensible,” because
parents or legal guardians of minors, including the name of the appropriate
institutional review board having approved the project;
they are “human”, cutting back the “religious pretensions” of an institution, and the
2) the maintenance and care of experimental animals comply with the

children are “anointed as Christians”: The sacrament is conceived as an initiation into
Thai National Institute of Health Guidelines for the humane use of laboratory
a Christian, human life. This is why Thomas Mann remembers the ceremony as “the
animals or the equivalent country authority or agency;
most gratifying experience in church I’ve ever had”.
3) approval is obtained from the relevant ethical committee.
This “sensible clergyman” was not just anybody. Back in 1933, Rev. Ernest
Caldecott had been one of the forty-three signatories of the controversial “Humanist

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