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I Corinthians 1:28.

11. Job 2:4.

12. Luther, “Table Talk, Number 1687.” Quoted by Frantz Funck-Brentano, Luther (London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1939), p. 246.

13. Henri L. Bergson, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1935).

14. Pascal, Pensées.

15. Thomas a Kempis, Of The Imitation of Christ (New York: Macmillan Company, 1937), Chap. III.

16. Pascal, op. cit.

17. Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1944), p. 758.

18. Pascal, op. cit.

19. History of the Communist Party (Moscow, 1945), p. 355. Quoted by John Fischer, Why They Behave Like Russians (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947), p. 236.

20. Quoted by Emile Cailliet, The Clue to Pascal (Toronto: Macmillan Company, 1944).

21. Quoted by Michael Demiashkevich, The National Mind (New York: American Book Company, 1938), p. 353.

22. See examples in Section 14.

23. Fëdor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot, Part IV, Chap. 7.

24. Ernest Renan, op. cit., Vol. V., p. 159.

25. Harold Ettlinger, The Axis on the Air (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943), p. 39.

26. Homer, Iliad.

27. Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections (New York: Macmillan Company, 1896), p. 52.


Chapter XIV

1. Heinrich Heine, Religion and Philosophy in Germany (London: Trubner & Company, 1882), p. 89.

2. Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940), p. 234.

3. Fritz August Voigt, Unto Caesar (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1938), p. 301.

4. Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943), p. 118.

5. Quoted by Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940), p. 234.

6. Ibid., p. 235.

7. See Section 100.

8. Crane Brinton, The Anatomy of Revolution (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1938), p. 62.

9. Ibid.

10. Ibid.

11. When John Huss saw an old woman dragging a fagot to add to his funeral pyre, he said: “O sancta simplicitas!” Quoted by Ernest Renan, The Apostles (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1898), p. 43.

12. Pascal, Pensées.

13. Hermann Rauschning, Hitler Speaks (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940), p. 235.

14. Adolph Hitler, op. cit., p. 351.

15. Pascal, op. cit.

16. Luther, “Table Talk, Number 2387 a-b.” Quoted in Frantz Funck-Brentano, Luther (London: Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1939), p. 319.

17. See Section 60.

18. Matthew 5.

19. Fëdor Dostoyevsky, The Possessed, Part II, Chap. 6.

20. Adolph Hitler, op. cit., p. 171.

21. Ernest Renan, History of the People of Israel (Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1888–1896), Vol. I, p. 130.

22. See Sections 96 and 98.

23. The Italian minister of education in 1926. Quoted by Julien Benda, The Treason of the Intellectuals (New York: William Morrow Company, 1928), p. 39.

24. For another view on the subject, see Section 33.

25. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, Chap. VI.

26. The Goebbels Diaries (Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948), p. 460.

27. Ibid., p. 298.

28. Guglielmo Ferrero, Principles of Power (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1942), p. 100.

29. Ernest Renan, The Poetry of the Celtic Races (London: W. Scott, Ltd., 1896), essay on Islamism, p. 97.

30. Kenneth Scott Latourette, The Unquenchable Light (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941), p. 33.

31. Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of the Expansion of Christianity (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937), Vol. I, p. 164.

32. Charles Reginald Haines, Islam as a Missionary Religion (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1889), p. 206.

33. Quoted by Frantz Funck-Brentano, op. cit., p. 260.

34. Guglielmo Ferrero, The Gamble (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1939), p. 297.

35. Crane Brinton, A Decade of Revolution (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934), p. 168.

36. “Dominic,” Encyclopaedia Britannica.

37. Adolph Hitler, op. cit., p. 171.

38. Ibid., p. 171.

39. See Section 45.

40. Jacob Burckhardt, Force and Freedom (New York: Pantheon Books, 1943), p. 129.

41. Francis Bacon, “Of Vicissitude of Things,” Bacon’s Essays, Everyman

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