DEALING WITH GERMANY
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CROWDS AND INDIVIDUALS. In his book, “What To Do With Germany,’-’ Colonel T. H. Minshall writes: —Many people form their judgment of Germany from their knowledge of individual Germans. Even if the Germans were truly a nation and even if such individuals were typical of the majority, the psychology of a crowd is not the same thing as that of its separate members. A nation, and especially one mainly composed of individuals deficient in independence of character and moral courage, can rise above or fall below the average moral level of its units. It would be broadly true to say that Germany’s finer achievements (in literature and art, in music and science) have been individual, its gross achievements (victorious wars, material expansion, mechanical efficiency) have been national. Has Germany ever contributed to mankind gifts comparable with the spread of ideas of freedom, justice and law, the abolition of slavery, co-operation among nations in peace, and reduction of its horrors in war? Germany “united” under Prussia has given the world more evil than good, and must continue to do so.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 3
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184DEALING WITH GERMANY Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 3
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