Once more the £‘non-professionals” had nothing left but to look on silently whilst the “professionals” were marching straight to destruction, drawing the innocent nation after them like the rat-catcher of Hamelin.
The victorious march of German technical skill and industry, the swelling triumphs of German trade, caused them to forget the fact that all this was only possible on the assumption of a strong state. Many, on the contrary, went so far as to proclaim their con¬ viction that the State owed its life simply to these developments, that it was first and foremost an economic institution and should be conducted accord¬ ing to the rules of economics, so that it should really depend for its existence on commerce, a condition which was held to be far the healthiest and most natural of all conditions.
The State, however, has nothing to do with any definite economic conception or economic develop¬ ment.
It is not an assembly of commercial negotiators during a period with defined limits for the purpose of carrying out economic objects, but the organization of a community, homogeneous in nature and feeling, for the better furtherance and maintenance of their type, and the fulfilment of the destiny marked out for them by Providence. This and nothing else is the object and significance of a State.
The Jewish State never had boundaries, as far as space was concerned ; it was unlimited as regards 7° MY STRUGGLE space, but bound down by its conception of itself as a race. That people, therefore, was always a State within the State. It was one of the cleverest tricks ever invented when that State was stamped with “religion” and so assured of the tolerance, which the Aryan is always ready to extend to religious creeds. For the Mosaic religion is really nothing but a doctrine for the preservation of the Jewish race. Hence it embraces nearly every branch of sociological, political and economic knowledge which could ever come into question in connection with it.