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

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73.) philosophy be too pessimistic Unfortunately it is a historical thing formed by the natural characteristics of the human mind, the human psyohology and the laws of the collective in human society. Incidentally, it is not even su pessimistic. I do not accept absolute pessimism or optimism as an overriding or correct characteristic of the life of human society, if human life should be merely a brute chamuf and an expression of gross violence, where would this be a pesssimistic conception of social events and life. But the human life is tired of cooperation, love and cooperation, is also a struggle for great moral ideals, as well as the expression of the highest qualities of the human mind and the highest values of human society. The people and the society that fights against the sage value and the gross violence without prejudice, without compromises and without fatigue on the side of the spirit and the ideal are the expression of true, objective and realistic optimism: and this is indeed the correct conception of human development and the glowing human life. The contemporary reaction in Europe to the democratic regimes therefore has a very natural basis not only in the political, social and economic conditions in the individual states, but also in the general law of social development and the philosophy of modern humanity. I have already stressed in the previous chapters that: