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to be chiefly the work of the German mind. According to Fichte,
die living God is Humanity and the German mind is the selfconsciousness
of God. In the evolution of the Humanity-God, one
state or people always leads the van, according to Hegel. Greece
and Rome led the ancient world. In Europe to-day there is a
Chosen People to carry on the development of the world—the German
Race. To that current another joins itself, namely, the one
that comes from the French writer, Gobineau, and from the
Englishman, H. St. Chamberlain. According to them, purity of
blood and race is the great principle of progress for humanity,
not only of phvsicial but of mental and moral progress. Accordingly,
to mould the world, the indispensable element is the purity
of the German blood and race. Thus we have the broad outlines
of the preparation of Rosenberg's theories. For Rosenberg all
Jewish blood is poisoned. That the blood of Our Lord Jesus
. Christ, communicated to Him by His Immaculate Jewish Mother,
should be the source to men of their most real Life, the Supernatural
Life of Grace, infinitely more noble than mere racial or
national life, even German and Aryan, would seem to Rosenberg
utter folly. 1
Rosenberg's dictum "once and for all, the so-called
Old Testament must be abolished as a book of religion" is condemned,
in the Letter On the Condition of the Church in Germany,
in terms which bring out at the same time the terrible opposition
of Jewish Naturalism to the Mystical Body of Christ
Anyone, therefore," writes Pope Pius XI, "who wishes to have
banished from the Church and from the school the Bible history
and the wise teachings of the Old Testament blasphemes against
the word of God and against Almighty God's plan of salvation,
and sets up as judge of the divine plans a narrow and limited human
mode of thought. He forsakes faith in Christ who appeared
in the reality of His Flesh, who took humanity of a people that
was later to nail Him to the cross. He understands nothing of the
world drama of the Son of God, who to the crime of His crucifiers
opposed the divine action of His redemptive death which, as High
Priest, He offered for us, and so caused the Old Testament to find
its fulfilment, its purpose and its sublime exaltation in the New."
Behind this deification of the German Race, there are also
1
Cf. Propositions condemned in the Letter of the Sacred Congregation
for Seminaries and Universities, 13th April, 1938.
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