first time in later German history distinction arose between ordinary dynastic patriotism and national love for Fatherland and People.
It should not be forgotten, as a general rule, that it is not the highest aim of man’s existence to maintain a State or a government, but rather to conserve its national character.
Human rights are above State rights. If, in its struggle for human rights, a race goes under, it means that it has weighed too light in the scales of fate to be fit to continue to exist in this ter¬ restrial world. For if a man is unprepared or unable to fight for his life, just Providence has already decreed his end.
The world is not for craven-hearted races.
Everything connected with the rise and the passing of the Pan-German movement on the one hand, and the astounding advance of the Christian-Socialist Party on the other, were to be of the deepest consequence to me as objects for study.