the race which main¬ tains it, would appear in the light of a most accursed of crimes. Whoever dares lay his hand on the most noble image of God is sinning against the kindly Creator of that marvel and is lending a hand in his expulsion from Paradise.
We are all aware that in the far future mankind will have to deal with problems to cope with which some most noble race will have to be summoned as leader of the world, supported by the forces of the whole of the globe.
Organization of a world policy can at all times only be effected by its being enunciated definitely and distinctly ; the principles of a political Party which is in process of formation are the same for it as dogma is for a religion.
Therefore the Nationalist policy must have an instrument which will offer a possibility of our defend¬ ing it by force—-just as now the Marxist Party organiza¬ tion is opening the way for Internationalism. This is the aim which the National Socialist German Workers5 Party is pursuing.
I then perceived that it was my special task to extract the central ideas from the mass of unshaped material of a universal world-theory and remould them in a more or less dogmatic form which, being clearly cut and dried, should be of a kind to unite solidly all those who subscribed to it. In other words : the National Socialist German Workers5 Party undertakes to adapt the essential principles of a universal national world-theory, and, having due regard to practical possibilities, the times, and the supply of human material and its weaknesses, to formulate from them a political creed which shall in time to come be the pre¬ liminary condition for the final triumph of that worldtheory when once such methods have made possible a rigid organization of great masses of people.