English Translation

182.) the given attitudes is politically possible or not. He must be an idealistic realist. The ability of this correct recognition is the secret of political success. I could continue in the enumeration of what came to be demanded of the leading politician at all and especially of the de-Mokrstic politician or statesman. I only mention the main demands. A truly democratic politician and leading democratic state-man can only be a human being whose mind - vohi knowing what democratic politics has to be in truth - has the above-mentioned personal abilities and characteristics in balance and in agreement; the analytical elenent of the mind and the synthetic, combinatorial, imaginary and artificial element of feeling and sensation; a person who is an active man of action will be aware that in democratic politics he must always be an unpersonal, unegoistisoher, patient and objective be- obaohter, a historical philosopher, a moralist at the same time. For the right democratic policy must be a strenuous struggle for the right realistic recognition of the existing reality and the possible future reality, a struggle conducted in the name of the true philosophy of history and in the spirit of the high all-human, moral ideals. xXX