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

71.) All these great historical revolutions went more or less through such periods of time. The sociologists, historians and psychologists see in these social events, actions and reactions a natural appearance and necessary phase of the political struggle. It is precisely the power of this natural reaction that gives them the opportunity to judge how deep the wave of revolution is or has been, whether it can really be successful and whether it is in the state to sow new and lasting conditions of a new social and political life, and whether new revolutionary principles can be accepted as a real and lasting foundation for a reconstruction of the state and of the entire social and national post-revolutionary organism. So Europe is once again writhing in the convulsions of such a great renewal, and we all live in a time of great ideal transition and overestimation of all the values and powers assumed so far. The whole historical development of humanity is a single gigantic, heroic struggle for the realization of the ever more courteous and just, socially and sittlioh more advanced and free human personality, which, however, should at the same time, by its high Sittliohe level and its formation, meet its duties over the state authority, towards society as a whole, which should be digitized and yet inwardly free, which on the one hand free-willed mind for its social, national and