as Menger wrote, “All things are subject to the law of cause and effect.”28 It would not be too far a stretch to imagine (as some notably have) that this commonality was, in part, because of the German language itself, which articulated clear distinctions between the proximate objective of Ziel and the ultimate end of Zweck (which Baer adamantly distinguished in Kant, no doubt having read Clausewitz from a few decades earlier), a distinction perhaps absent amid the “poverty” of other Western languages.29
