With great frankness he sketches out the scheme of his conquest, based on strategists like Schlieffen and others. The campaign against France in 1940 was the literal execution of Schlieffen's plan revised by Greener. He propagates the right for himself to violate international and civil la to break contracts and overthrow institutions, to let people starve and kill h's adversary millions of people have enthusiastically submitted to his scheme because it was aimed at the creation of a greater unity, "which, they felt with him, had to come at all costs.
Machiavelli developed a scheme that influenced later rulers to 2 trend of politics. Hitler not only schemed, but acted at once. Both put up a mew idol of community-worship at a tine when the influence of Christianity was receding. Both felt that their existing community would fall a prey to raging frictions with other groups as long as the lack of political ce-ordination precluded any hope of social and political adaptation to the new proportions of the world. Both sought salvation by brutally cutting short all threads that bind humanity by tes of law, tradition, decency or faith, and seek instead to "save" them by enslaving them.
Denial of Best in Human Soul It is superfluous to embark upon a criticism of the moral value of these doctrines or to point out that schemes which deny God and the best in the human soul, are bound to collapse under the indignant reaction of humanity against so much contemptuous conceit It is another aspect of this problem that is more instructive and merits careful investigation. History and the. laws of analogy show that men like Machiavelli, or Hitler, are unconscious tools who liberate evolu-these men who chi it is the reaction against them which brings it about.
Strangely enough, it seems that progress often emerges from shocking immorality. Without these shocks man is not disposed to go out of his way to listen to the spirit of his time. It is only reaction against the terror of tyranny which revives the spirit of justice, and brings into action the longing for freedom. Human beings rarely accept changes unless they are, forced upon them.
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