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be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands
nothing in the political – to all these things the goyim paid no regard; yet all the time it was
based upon these things that dynastic rule rested; the father passed on to the son a
knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that none could betray it to the
governed. As time went on the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true position of
affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of our cause.
In all corners of the earth the words “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity” brought to our ranks,
thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all
the time these words were cankerworms at work boring into the well-being of the goyim,
putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of
the goy States.
As you will see later, this helped us to our triumph; it gave us the possibility,
among other things, of getting into our hands the master card – the destruction of the
privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of the goyim we have set
up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The
qualifications for this aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon
us, and in knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the motive force.
Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with the men whom
we wanted we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords of the human mind,
upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the satiability for material needs of man; and
each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it
hands over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought their activities.
The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all countries that their
government is nothing but the steward of the people who are the owners of the country, and
that the steward may be replaced like a worn-out glove.
It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which has placed them at
our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of appointment.
PROTOCOL NO. 2
It is indispensable for our purposes that wars, so far as possible, should not result in
territorial gains; war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will
not fail to perceive in the assistance we give, the strength of our predominance, and this
state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international agentur, which possesses
millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our
international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule
the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of their subjects among
themselves.
The administrators, whom we shall choose among the public, with strict regard to their
capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained in the arts of government, and
will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius
who will be their advisers, specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs
of the whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing to
fit them for rule, the information they need from our political plans, from the lessons of
history, from observations made of the events of every moment as it passes.
The goyim are
not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine
without any critical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account
of them – let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of
enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them let that play the
principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science (theory).
