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As you see, I found our despotism on right and duty: the right to compel the execution of
duty is the direct obligation of a government which is a father for its subjects. It has the right
of the strong that it may use it for the benefit of directing humanity towards that order which
is defined by nature, namely, submission.
Everything in the world is in a state of
submission, if not to man, then to circumstances or its own inner character, in all cases, to
what is stronger.
And so shall we be this something stronger for the sake of good.
We are obliged without hesitation to sacrifice individuals, who commit a breach of
established order, for in the exemplary punishment of evil lies a great educational problem.
When the King of Israel sets upon his sacred head the crown offered him by Europe he will
become patriarch of the world.
The indispensable victims offered by him in consequence of
their suitability will never reach the number of victims offered in the course of centuries by
the mania of magnificence, the emulation between the goy governments.
Our King will be in constant communion with the peoples, making to them from the tribune
speeches which fame will in that same hour distribute over all the world.
PROTOCOL NO. 16
In order to effect the destruction of all collective forces except ours we shall emasculate the
first stage of collectivism – the universities, by re-educating them in a new direction. Their
officials and professors will be prepared for their business by detailed secret programs of
action from which they will not with immunity diverge, not by one iota. The will be appointed
with especial precaution, and will be placed as to be wholly dependent upon the
government.
We shall exclude from the course of instruction State Law as also all that concerns the
political question.
These subjects will be taught to a few dozens of persons chosen for their
pre-eminent capacities from among the number of the initiated. The universities must no
longer send out from their halls milksops concocting plans for a constitution, like a comedy
or a tragedy, busying themselves with questions of policy in which even their own fathers
never had any power of thought.
The ill-guided acquaintance of a large number of persons with question of polity creates
utopian dreamers and bad subjects, as you can see for yourselves from the example of the
universal education in this direction of the goyim. We must introduce into their education all
those principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power
we shall remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and shall
make out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who rules as the support
and hope of peace and quiet.
Classicism, as also any form of study of ancient history, in which there are more bad than
good examples, we shall erase from the memory of men all facts of previous centuries which
are undesirable to us, and leave only those which depict all the errors of the government of
the goyim.
The study of practical life, of the obligations of order, of the relations of people
one to another, of avoiding bad and selfish examples, which spread the infection of evil, and
similar questions of an educative nature, will stand in the forefront of teaching program,
which will be drawn up on a separate plan for each calling or state of life, in no wise
generalizing the teaching.
This treatment of the question has special importance.
Each state of life must be trained within strict limits corresponding to its destination and work
in life.
The occasional genius has always managed and always will manage to slip through
into our states of life, but it is the perfect folly for the sake of this rare occasional genius to
let through into ranks foreign to them the untalented who thus rob of the places those who
