comrades for the fight from a collection of men, who are obsolete in body and, alas ! only too often so in mind as well. Only the exceptions, old men young in heart and fresh in mind will come with us, but never those who think that the final significance of their task in life is to main¬ tain a condition of things unaltered.
We must bear in mind that if a certain sum of high energy and efficiency has been extracted from a nation and appears to be united in one single aim and has been finally segregated out of the inertia of the masses, this small percentage, ipso facto, rises to become master of the rest. The world’s history is made by minorities, given that they have incorporated in them the greater part of the nation’s will-power and determination.
Therefore, that which appears to many to be a disadvantage is in reality the necessary condition of our victory. It is in the greatness and difficulty of our task that the probability lies that only the best fighters will join us in the fight. The pledge of success lies in choice of the very best.
Every crossing of races leads sooner or later to the decay of the hybrid product, so long as the higher portion of the cross survives united in racial purity. It is only when the last vestige of the higher racial unit becomes bastardized that the hybrid product ceases to be in danger of extinction. But a foundation must be *58 M Y STRUGGLE laid of a natural, if slow, process of regeneration, which shall gradually drive out the racial poison, that is, given that a foundation stock of racial purity still exists, and the process of bastardization is arrested.
It is the first duty of a national State to raise marriage from being a perpetual disgrace to the race, and to consecrate it as an institution, which is called to reproduce the Lord’s image, and not monstrous beings, half man, half monkey.
Protests against this on so-called humanitarian grounds ill befit an epoch which allows any corrupt degenerate to reproduce himself and so lay a