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demonstrate male power before a woman, he is impelled
to compen.'3ate by exhibiting unsurpassed pO'VIler before
men in the world at largee
1. (d) Achievement of Pcwe~ t~rough Oratory.­
Hitler could neither change his origins nor decree
his potency, and unlike Mussolini he has never tried
to develop himself physically, but he became for a
while the most powerful individual in the world, primarily
by t.he use of m~E~:-,i~tg~icatJng ~£t~~. Aristotle
has said that the ~et_~~~.r is the ' mg.E.t ' potent ' forci
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nonfirmed th~
flnd Hi tIer, ID8.S tel" of crude metaphor, has
dictum in this generation. By seducing
the masses with his eloquence, and getting them to
accept lum as their divinely apPointod guide, he compelled
the smaller circles of indu3trialists, politi~
cians and military leaders to fall into line also.
Hitler speaking before a large audience is a
man possossed, comparable to a primitive medicine
man, or shaman.
He is the inc2rnntionof ' thecrowd's
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______ unspoken needs ' and crav:tl1gs; ___ 10..:.._ and in this sense he has
been created, and to a large extent invented, by the
people of Gormany.