English Translation

180.) to which Fbrmen lends. The politician as a kinstler puts his mind, his thoughts and views, his plans, his feelings and his winks, his individuality, in short, into the material from which he composes the social life, his spirit, his ideas and opinions, his plan, his own individuality and in short himself, He wants to create a world from society, as he imagines it himself The politician, as a scientist, ponders, studies, tests and seeks how the already existing reality is afflicted, i.e. What is. The politician, as an artist, makes up and transforms what is into something, which he considers to be riohtig, necessary and good for the further thriving development of the state and society, i.e. into what should be, but every creation requires imagination. Without economic capacity of imagination, combination and synthesis, therefore, no politician can successfully so-hape his new social reality, besides, the politician - scientist must be a true psychologist and it must be, both in theory and in practice, to be able to "make" it, as people say. From psychological theory he must know only central and fundamental. As far as the practice is concerned, the politician must have an innate talent for psychoiogic observation, for understanding self-inliving in the soul of others, for the rapid recognition of the human being in all his mental abilities and inclinations, but that can be done without a great practical experience of his own life.