earliest technical aids to progress, i.e., by employing races inferior to themselves, the capacity for creating culture which was dormant in them would have produced an efflor¬ escence just as splendid as did in fact happen in the case of the Hellenes.
The chief aim to be pursued by a national State is conservationyof the ancient racial elements which, by disseminated culture, create the beauty and dignity of a higher humanity. We, as Aryans living under a State, can only picture to ourselves the living organism of a nationality which will not only ensure that that nationality shall be maintained, but also by continuing to nurture its intellectual and imaginative capabilities, leads it on to the highest freedom.
And yet, to-day, the pressure brought to bear on us as a State is a product of intense human error, with a likelihood of unspeakable misery to follow.
We National Socialists are aware that the presentday world regards us as revolutionaries on account of our ideas, and is branding us as such. But our thoughts and actions must not be influenced by our own epoch’s approval or condemnation, but by firm adhesion to the truths which we recognize. We may then be sure that the clearer vision of posterity will not only compre¬ hend our action of to-day, but will admit that it was right, and pay honour to it.
In speaking of a higher mission of the State we should not forget that the higher mission resides i56 MY STRUGGLE essentially in the nation, and that the State’s duty is merely to make use of its organizing strength for the purpose of promoting the nation’s free development.
But if we ask how the State which we Germans require should be constituted, we must first be clear as to what kind of men it should aim at producing and what object it sets out to serve.