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refined, and placed it high above other nations.
But since the disastrous war of 1914 Europe
has fallen into a moral decline and has become
in 20 years more cruel and barbarous than
the savages of any other part of the globe."

This was written a year or two before the war
began in 1939.

Modern Progress to him seems " sadly
subversive of all that is restrained, moder-
ate and refined. It only believes in a head-
long rush towards power to upset humanity and
decency. It is the bull in the China shop of
civilization, and the first duty of humanity
is to bring it under the yoke again/'

" Europe will be broken to pieces—signs
are already visible—and utterly destroyed/'
(1938).

" That monstrous notion of the Superman,
fathered by arrogant Prussianism, has been
fostered by ruffianly boasters. It has not
yet produced any good, beneficent leader who
could use power to serve the higher interests
of humanity and bring about world-welfare.
Germany's latest € Super ' has well-nigh des-
troyed it/'
This was written in 1942.
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