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“To draw from the realm of the eternally true and ideal that which is humanly possible for small mortals, and make it take form, the search after truth must be coupled with knowledge of the people’s psyche. This transformation of a general, philosophical, ideal conception of the highest truth into a definitely delimited, tightly organized political community of faith and struggle unified in spirit and will...”
or more candidly expressed in a 1939 translation:
“This faith, since its goal has to be one that can be practically achieved, will not only have to serve the idea in itself, but it will also have to consider the fighting means which exist and have to be applied for gaining the victory of this idea. The abstractly correct spiritual conception, which the program maker has to preach, must be accompanied by the practical knowledge of the politician. Thus, an eternal ideal, as the guiding star of mankind, must unfortunately resign itself to taking into consideration the weaknesses of mankind if it wants to avoid failing from the very beginning, in consequence of general human inadequacy. The searcher for truth, therefore, has to associate with the judge of the psyche of a people in order to draw and to shape, out of the realm of the eternally true and ideal, what is humanly possible for small mortals.”87
87 Hitler, Adolf and Johnson, Alvin. Mein Kampf, Complete and Unabridged, Fully Annotated. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1939. 576.
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