THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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English Translation

190.) Ambitions to lead, humanly justified and morally justified. There are people who want to be fed, either because they are of indifferent, passive or slave nature and inclined to worship, or selfishly with benefits from obeying, or because they help recognized auto- rities to control other fellow citizens. There are also many who have no desire at all for public life and no inclination, no need and no possibility to deal with public affairs workers, who want to remain equal to them and who want them to consciously have Rahe, in order to protect the well-known unpleasant sides of public life at all. Finally, there is the natural physiological and mental inequality of people, the under-soied of education and the inequality of abilities, intellect and talent, which itself imposes a selection in the leadership of organized society and requires appropriate nourishment and proper organization. From this point of view, too, the current crisis of democracy is being judged. In the parties, the above-mentioned approach creates an oligarchy, but even the democratist parliament, this body, which is supposed to be the symbol and the full expression of the ideals of pure democracy, oligarizes itself gradually. This is because Parliament too must be led, its work organized, its activity birokratized.