No peace has filled our hearts, no rest has come to any corner of human existence. It is true that the collapse of a powerful State with all its physical and spiritual forces will be felt a long time, just as the sea is stirred into motion when a large stone is thrown into the calm water. But something much more is happening at present in Europe and in the world - something quite different from the mere ebbing away of such a wave of events. They are those restless ideas, aiming at the disaster of nations, of which I spoke. He coined this phrase one hundred years ago.
History is determined by changes in religious values.
They constitute the strongest motive power in the cultural progress of humanity. Permit me to show you in a few bold strokes the intellectual and historical forebears of National Socialism. The Tribunal will now adjourn. The gist of those remarks can be summarised in two or three sentences and I merely beg you to take cognizance of them. I have pointed out that the cause of all these disastrous movements is the spiritual attitude which Jacques Maritain described as anthropocentric humanism.