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Adolf Hitler presents an autobiographical account of his life and the development of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. He outlines the foundational principles and aims of the movement while addressing his personal history and political objectives.

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Chapter IV

now is the foundation of all strategy, was due originally to a determined brain, and not until perhaps thousands of years had passed was it universally accepted as a perfectly natural thing.

Man crowned this first discovery with a second ; he learned, amongst other things, how to live whilst engaged in his struggle for life. And so began the inventive activity peculiar to man, the results of which we see all around us. And it is the result of the creative power and capability of the individual person. It was profoundly instrumental in making the man who has the power of continually rising higher still. But what were once simple artifices helping hunters in the forest in their struggle for existence are now the brilliant scientific discoveries of our present time, and these help mankind in the struggle for existence to-day and are forging the weapons for struggles in the future.

The labour of evolving pure theory, which is incap¬ able of measurement but which is the necessary pre¬

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