This Republic is popular with the rest of the world.
A weak man is always better liked by those who make use of him than a rough-mannered man. Indeed, the enemy’s sympathy with this form of State is its most destructive criticism. They like the German Republic and allow it to go on, since no better ally in the work of enslaving our nation could possibly be found.
The national State will have to fight for its life. The Dawes proposals will not help it to defend itself. For its life and self-protection it will require just what men now believe they can dispense with. The more perfect and valuable it is in form and essence, the more will its opponents resent and resist it. The citizens will then be its best protection, rather than its weapons. Fortress walls will not cover it, but rather the living walls of men and women, full of love for the Fatherland and fanatical nationalist enthusiasm.
The third recommendation deals with scientific teaching :
The national State will look upon science as a means for increasing national pride. Not only worldhistory, but also the history of civilization, must be taught from this point of view. An inventor should appear great not merely as an inventor, but even more so as a fellow-countryman. Admiration of any great deed must be combined with pride because the for¬ tunate doer of it is a member of our own nation. We must extract the greatest from the mass of great names in German history and place them before the youth in so impressive a fashion that they may become the pillars of an unshakable nationalist sentiment.
There is no such thing as nationalism which merely considers class. One can only be proud of one’s nation if there is no class of which one must