English Translation

221.) and human limitation and ignorance. The human creature is so in its excessive, un-healthy selfishness. -And it is precisely for this reason that the Mensoh is able to live with his comrades in political society, he must consciously and consistently pursue the paths and strive again in daily politics for how he can make up for these mingles of human character and manage the traditions. As I have already said above, there were two ways of doing this, which were always the only ways of perfecting human society in every social environment, on the one hand the moral perfection of the people as individuals, and on the other hand the perfection of political institutions as institutions in themselves In the struggle for the perfecting of human beings, it will be the constant overcoming of himself, the raising of one's own level, the improvement of his own moral unegotic personality in the spirit of what I said at the beginning of this chapter about the conception of the politician in democracy and the leadership in post-war democracy. In the struggle for the new democratic post-war man, it will be a matter of how to resist the unhealthy party spirit of unbearability, infallibility and unobjectivity, which must always be opposed to the democratic spirit of objectivity, science and tolerance.