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we shall enable it to be enjoyed in peace and quiet, with proper dignity of relations, on the
condition, of course, of strict observance of the laws established by us.
We shall make plain
therewith that freedom does not consist in dissipation and in the right of unbridled license
any more than the dignity and force of a man do not consist in the right for everyone to
promulgate destructive principles in the nature of freedom of conscience, equality and the
like; that freedom of the person in no wise consists in the right to agitate oneself and others
by abominable speeches before disorderly mobs, and that true freedom consists in the
inviolability of the person who honorably and strictly observes all the laws of life in common;
that human dignity is wrapped up in consciousness of the rights and also of the absence of
rights of each, and not wholly and solely in fantastic imagining about the subject of one’s
ego.
Our authority will be glorious because it will be all-powerful, will rule and guide, and not
muddle along after leaders and orators shrieking themselves hoarse with senseless words
which they call great principles and which are nothing else, to speak honestly, but utopian.
Our authority will be the crown of order, and in that is included the whole happiness of man.
The aureole of this authority will inspire a mystical bowing of the knee before it and a
reverent fear before it of all the peoples.
True force makes no terms with any right, not even
with that of God: none dare come near to it so as to take so much as a span from it away.
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That the peoples become accustomed to obedience it is necessary to inculcate lessons of
humility and therefore to reduce the production of article of luxury. By this we shall improve
morals which have been debased by emulation in the sphere of luxury.
We shall re-
establish small master production which will mean laying a mine under the private capital of
manufacturers.
This is indispensable also for the reason that manufacturers on the grand
scale often move, though not always consciously, the thoughts of the masses in directions
against the government. A people of small masters knows nothing of unemployment and
this binds him closely with existing order, and consequently with the firmness of authority.
Unemployment is a most perilous thing for a government. For us its part will have been
played out the moment authority is transferred into our hands. Drunkenness also will be
prohibited by law and punishable as a crime against the humanness of man who is turned
into a brute under the influence of alcohol.
Subjects, I repeat once more, give blind obedience only to the strong hand which is
absolutely independent of them, for in it they feel the sword of defense and support against
social scourges.
What do they want with an angelic spirit in a king?
What they have to see
in him is the personification of force and power.
The supreme lord who will replace all now existing rulers, dragging on their existence
among societies, though he should drench them with his own blood, that he may resurrect
them again in the form of regularly organized troops fighting consciously with every kind of
infection that may cover the body of the State with sores.
This Chosen One of God is chose from above to demolish the senseless forces moved by
instinct and not reason, by brutishness and not humanness.
These forces now triumph in
manifestations of robbery and every kind of violence under the mask of principles of
freedom and rights.
They have overthrown all forms of social order to erect on the ruins the
throne of the King of the Jews; but their part will be played out the moment he enters into his
kingdom.
Then it will be necessary to sweep them away from his path, on which must be
left no knot, no splinter.
Then will it be possible for us to say to the peoples of the world: “Give thanks to God and
bow the knee before him who bears on this front the seal of the predestination of man, to
