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The Origin Of The Fascist Mentality 31

responsibilities to Him, but instead considered man a great, superior, and
independent being. The influences of humanism took on further aspects with
the philosophy of the Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Enlightenment philosophers were influenced by and fiercely defended
materialism, an idea which developed in ancient Greece. (Materialism is a
dogmatic philosophy put forward by such Greek thinkers as Leucippus and
Democritus, positing that only matter exists).

THE LIBERTY CAP: The picture below was thought to represent the unity and
indivisibility of the republic established after the French revolution. In this and many
other illustrations of the period, the symbol of the liberty cap was used to represent
the revolution, but was actually a legacy of the pagan myth of Mithras from the
ancient world.