Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-05


sTTNHE era that Is now dawning
Il will have the task of or
ganizing Europe of free
peoples, independent as regards
their domestic functiOning, mu-
tually associated with one an
other rs regards their common
outlook, and the motto will be:
liberty, equality, humanity"
''In Italy, In Germany, In Po-
land, I'm France, everywhere,
indeed, the true original nature
of the revolutionary movements
has been altered by men, I'M
fortunately influential, but
grasplng and ambitious, who
have regarded the uprising OF
the people but rs an opportunity
for power or profit; or by weak
men, trembling at the difficulties
and the dangers of the enter
prise, who have sacrificed the
logic of the Instruction to their
own fears.
Everywhere have false and
pernicious doctrines caused the
revolutions TO deviate from their
true aim; the idea of q caste
has been substituted for the
popular emancipation of all by
all.
1.-THE declaration OF the rights
Of man Is the supreme and ulti-
mate formula.
IS A NY one familiar with any
"A part Of my writings will
surely not accuse me Of irrever-
ence toward genius, or of shar-
ing in an anarchial tendency
that Is so conspicuous today, and
which thwarts many q noble
endeavor by inclining insignifi-
cant individuals to hold alOof
from any activity that implies
orderliness, subordination and
discipline. I respect authority
and 1 am conscious Of all the
holiness that lies in obedience
to a leader.
However, authority resides
In God, In His law, in the truth.
When, therefore, a man bids me
to follow him and says Author
ity lives in my person. have
the duty and the right to in
vestigate and see whether virtue,
the moral law, the capacity for
self-sacrifice are In fact alive In
his person, just whittier he in
tends to lead me, and whether,
finally, the sum of forces that
he Is I'm q position to apply to
tho achievement of the given
purpose is larger or smaller
than the resources possessed by
some other individual.
''But should we fall on our
faces before authority, as saw
ages Frustrated themselves be-
fore a flash of lightninge Attila
would kill the conscience of the
human race!
"Genius Is not authority. It Is
the tool Of authority. Authority
Is virtue, Illuminated by genius.
"All unjust rule, all violence,
every act of egotism exercised
to the injury of q people, Is q
violation of the liberty, equality
and fraternity OF all peoples. All
the peoples should aid each
other in putting an end to It.
sCTO YOU, German national
l. lists, I have this to say:
Conquest by might does not
make right, nor treaties, either,
when they are made In the inter-
est Of a few individuals. Human
ity knows only one principle of
right; the good and the just.
do not justify oppression by
making the people Its sponsors!
Do not shoulder arms for for
eign offices that date from the
middle Ages.|.Be= Germans
what you say to your people! In
what sense do you use that ex-
preston ? OF what Germany are
yVu thntHfuk vi thC oCtnthny
that Expresses In the name of
violence, or of the Germany
that blesses in the name Of
civilization?
81 am q foreigner. but I know
. Germany before which I bow.
II Is the Germany of the Ref
ormation that said to the world.
the kingdom of heaven must
have some counterpart on earth
"You are evidently not Ger
mans, save In the purely material
sense of the term. 1 am an Ital-
Ian, but at the same time I am
n European. I love my country
because I love the concept of
country. I want rights for Ital-
ians because 1 believe In rights
for all.
The nation must stand to-
ward all humanity as the family
stands toward country. II n
nation Expresses others II loses
Its right to exist rs a nation
IL digs its own grave.
you imagine that you are
helping your German Father