The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-22

It contains his exaltation of force-the Willie zur Macht, and his rejection of all the easy, comfortable reasonings of mod ern society. The aristocratists' fayorite quotation from Nietzsche is a tutification o1 aristocracy as something self-evidene and self-sufficient. The essence Of a sooo aristocracy,' wrote Nietzsche. lis sna. !. Ieeis itself not as a function whether of kingdom or commonwealth. put as its own meaning and it's own iusri- lication It's priciple must be that so- ciety dies not exist for the sake of so- ciety, but only as foundation and scaf- ipiuins py means of which an elect kind oi Deing may rise to it's higher tasks"
 ine ar'stoeratists do not push things so Tar as this. for they attempt tn sustiiF acr1stocracy as the basis and only possible basis, of a sound national state. All of them are against thA coshiopolitanfsm which has arisen with cenocracy Haiser even writes that
 All Rigne taristocratic) principles are hational' and all Left (democratic) principles are antj-national:" and he draws up parallel schemes of deyelor- nent or Q typical Right and a typical Le1t state. The Right state has raca onsarchy, centralized government privileged nobles, military service as e class privilege, the domination of land ever money; the prevention of mixed
 
 over women. The Left state has race tquanty. decentraliza tion capitalism lndlscr1minate intermarriage of races. universal military service and feminism The tdgft state decays when it absorbs sraonally the principles of the Left state anu then it falls under foreign conquest and new Right, or aristo- craue' state arises on it's ashes.
 rms doctrine gets a certain colorine or verisnilitude by the general dis. content Of thinkers with the state oV Eurcpe. Every day articles appear Tn the press analyzing national diseases. ano preaictlng national decay. The latest. The German Collapse.. comns from the Ten os Prof. Adolf Bartels of Nelniar, who sees an entire debasement UT populnr morals and taste decliro CT scientific and artistic achievement and general imperiliing of the em pres posftion-all as a result of the eroolng operations carried on bv tha mongrel "brafn scum against sound national ioeas -is.f ganN
 Fed ari>tocrats fre to he fo,,,5 among the aristocratists The feudsI nobility stands aside. The movemen, IS run by professors and clever pub ilcis.s or inlade-ei origin. men who 1T they preached the democratic doc Urine would themselves be derifed ,s
 brain scum. With the exception of the Jena r,iman garden the move,nent has no practical side. Herr Roma,,s czuk. who is prominent Austrian noli- tfcian. declares that it is mere nass- ing phase Nevertheless it is grate- ful to see an intellectual revolt against accepted ideas. That alone is a nroos tnat Europe Is not as bady off as Herr Habisch' gays" The aristocratists. Hsr,. Habischi among them, are optimist. Habisch thinks that If the masses ara properly taught they will beg tho plood-lea iers, the aristocrats. soldiers ana over men to come and rule them" He foresees "the day when we sinai, have an improved Inca civilization with just, merciiess. pure blooded. unin,- peachable arstocrats on top; and coz tented, laborious, but Gin the present in famo'se sense of the word) not free peo- pie underneath" peS-