Thus, all inventions are the result of an individual's work. All
these individuals, whether intentionally or unintentionally, are
more or less great benefactors of all men. Their work subsequently
gives millions, nay, billions of human creatures, instruments with
which to facilitate and carry out their life struggle.
If in the origin of our present material culture we always find
individuals in the form of inventors, complementing one another and
one building upon another, we find the same in the practice and
execution of the things devised and discovered by the inventors.
For all productive processes in turn must in their origin be
considered equivalent to inventions, hence dependent on the
individual. Even purely theoretical intellectual work, which in
particular cases is not measurable, yet is the premise for all
further material inventions, appears as the exclusive product of
the individual person. It is not the mass that invents and not the
majority that organizes or thinks, but in all things only and
always the individual man, the person.
A human community appears well organized only if it facilitates the
labors of these creative forces in the most helpful way and applies
them in a manner beneficial to all. The most valuable thing about
the invention itself, whether it lie in the material field or in
the world of ideas, is primarily the inventor as a personality.
Therefore, to employ him in a way benefiting the totality is the
first and highest task in the organization of a national community.
Indeed, the organization itself must be a realization of this
principle. Thus, also, it is redeemed from the curse of mechanism
and becomes a living thing. It must itself be an embodiment of the
endeavor to place thinking individuals above the masses, thus
subordinating the latter to the former.
Consequently, the organization must not only not prevent the
emergence of thinking individuals from the mass; on the contrary,
it must in the highest degree make this possible and easy by the
nature of its own being. In this it must proceed from the principle
that the salvation of mankind has never lain in the masses, but in
its creative minds, which must therefore really be regarded as
benefactors of the human race. To assure them of the most decisive
influence and facilitate their work is in the interest of the
totality. Assuredly this interest is not satisfied, and is not
served by the domination of the unintelligent or incompetent, in
any case uninspired masses, but solely by the leadership of those
to whom Nature has given special gifts for this purpose.
The selection of these minds, as said before, is primarily
accomplished by the hard struggle for existence. Many break and
perish, thus showing that they are not destined for the ultimate,
and in the end only a few appear to be chosen. In the fields of
thought, artistic creation, even, in fact, of economic life, this
selective process is still going on today, though, especially in
the latter field, it faces a grave obstacle. The administration of
the state and likewise the power embodied in the organized military
might of the nation are also dominated by these ideas. Here, too,
the idea of personality is everywhere dominant - its authority
downward and its responsibility toward the higher personality
above. Only political life has today completely turned away from
this most natural principle. While all human culture is solely the
result of the individual's creative activity, everywhere, and
particularly in the highest leadership of the national community,
the principle of the value of the majority appears decisive, and
from that high place begins to gradually poison all life; that is,
in reality to dissolve it. The destructive effect of the Jew's
activity in other national bodies is basically attributable only to
his eternal efforts to undermine the position of the personality in
the host-peoples and to replace it by the mass. Thus, the
organizing principle of Aryan humanity is replaced by the
destructive principle of the Jew. He becomes 'a ferment of
decomposition' among peoples and races, and in the broader sense a
dissolver of human culture.