"Confidence in his own superior mental agility has always made him an advocate of 'liberty,' and rendered him impatient of restrictions . . . . The body of economico-political doctrine known as 'Liberalism' was largely built up by Jewish, crypto-Jewish, or pro-Jewish writers; and, in German-speaking countries especially, the 'Progressive' parties have been recruited largely from Jewish politicians and supported by Jewish organs. The German advocates of the 'Manchester School' in economics were principally Jews, whose object seemed to be the establishment of freedom of the kind defined by Kürnberger, in another connection, as 'the free fox in the free hen-roost.'"
Henry Wickham Steed, The Hapsburg Monarchy (1914)*
When I yesterday posted some words of sympathy for the long-suffering Ubermenschen of this world, some readers mistook them for an endorsement of devil-take-the-hindmost libertarianism. Today's epigraph and post should correct that impression. I have great sympathy for simple, humble, ordinary, folk, provided they toil for their bread. This is hardly surprising, since I am, in most respects, simple, humble, and ordinary myself. Whether I toil for my bread may be disputed, but I have just come in from mowing my own lawn, and I will later today clean the clutter out of my garage. But simple, humble, ordinary, yes. I have managed, so far, to keep out of prison and the poorhouse, but I am not a master of the universe, actual or manque.
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