English Translation

205.) and the individual of all classes must be aware; but also the intellectuals and educated must be interested in politics themselves, because the veritable leadership can also come from its ranks in democracy. From time to time, Pührer appear directly from the people - usually after revolutions and stormy times. But it is to be theirs, who, oh like they come directly from the people, are either intellectuals to a certain extent and practically educated, or they become education or their own effort, out of compulsion or through circumstances, In every case it is almost impossible in modern life and in the democratic states to grasp themselves with politics with the claim to a more meaningful position without very strict intellectual work, without very significant education, without a very extended encapsulation of all branches of the political and social sciences, without special abilities, great experience of life and above described characteristics. The state and the people without such leaders are simply ill-fated, because - I repeat - the question of successful democracy is above all a question of the volatility of their leaders and, at the same time, of the political maturity of their masses. The degree of rebirth, the emergence of democracy and the improvement of democracy after the Second World War will also depend on the mass in which these two fundamental orders of democratic political life are made.