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though it may be, can be made and when such objection may find more favor with the
people, whose powers of reasoning are superficial? Men in masses and the men of the
masses, being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, customs, traditions and
sentimental theorism, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement
even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends
upon a chance or packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts forth
some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of anarchy.
The political has nothing in common with the moral.
The ruler who is governed by the moral
is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule
must have recourse both to cunning and to make believe. Great national qualities, like
frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones
more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be
the attributes of the kingdoms of the goyim, and we must, in no wise, be guided by them.
Our right lies in force.
The word right is an abstract thought and proved by nothing.
The
word means no more than: Give me what I want in order that thereby I might have proof that
I
am stronger than you.
Where does right begin? Where does it end?
In any State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an impersonality of laws and of
the rulers who have lost their personality amid the flood of rights ever multiplying out of
liberalism, I find a new right to attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds
all existing forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become the
sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power by laying them down
voluntarily in their liberalism.
Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more invincible than
any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength
that no cunning can any longer undermine it. [H: Check it out for yourself and note that it is
only now that enough uncovering is taking place to even touch the invincibles, even though
a
few have known TRUTH and tried to offer it unto you-the-people while you slept on and
on and on
]
Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an
unshakeable rule, which will restore the regular course of the machinery of the national life,
brought to naught by liberalism.
The result justifies the means. Let us, however, in our
plans, direct our attention not so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary
and useful.
Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from which we cannot deviate
without running the risk of seeing the labor of many centuries brought to naught.
In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have regard to the
rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack of capacity to understand and
respect the conditions of its own life, or its own welfare.
It must be understood that the
might of a mob is blind, senseless and unreasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion
from any side.
The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss;
consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should be as
a
genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come forward as
leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin.
Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding of the words
that can be made up of the political alphabet.
A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin by party dissensions
excited by the pursuit of power and honors and disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for
the masses of the people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgments, to deal with
the affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interests? Can they
defend themselves from an external foe?
It is unthinkable, for a plan broken up into as
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