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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

in removing it as a driving motive of the world… It is in accordance
with this great principle that the catastrophe of the world war came
about as the result of the motive forces in the lives of states and
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peoples, like a thunderstorm which must by its nature discharge
itself. 5
German chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg's advisor
and close friend Kurt Riezler wrote in 1914:

Eternal and absolute enmity is fundamentally inherent in relations
between peoples; and the hostility which we observe everywhere…

Since the time of
Darwin, racist attacks
and related violence
have increased.
Today, we continue
to find such twisted
ideas in
organisations such
as the Neo- Nazis
and the Ku Klux
Klan, which target
blacks and people of
other races. It must
not be forgotten, that
the responsibility for
all of these inhuman
tendencies arises
first and foremost
from Social
Darwinism.