English Translation

72.) citizenry duties prove that they are not so cruel forms of mechanistic discipline or authority and violence, as is now the case in the authoritarian states. It is a social fact that the struggle of men for this higher culture and civilization, this higher degree of freedom and defamation of the human personality, is not in a straight line through ruhi- ge development; it is taking place in social waves. We have times of freedom in which the first revolutionary enthusiasm ignites too high, in which a liberated generation commits and mis-successes its liberated rhymes out of enthusiasm or weakness, because they are inexperienced; and it follows the reaction - often a violent one. However, in times of decline a new wave of freedom follows. This time the newly liberated people and their piping are more prepared, more mature; it learns and must take place from its earlier errors and mis-conducts and realizes in these new times a higher level of culture and civilization, of freedom and respect for the human personality. So there is a new wave, a higher time of the development of society and of human civilization. Of course it is hard and regrettable that humanity must pay so dearly for its fort-earing and the aspirations for its own perfection, perhaps someone will suspect that this conception of history