Karl Marx

feudal party has been the lowest of the three conditions continues to progress toward a condition of greatof soul. The condition most favorable to our cause has power. This uplifting of that nation to envied leaderbeenthe elevation of the condition of numerous souls ship in natural science and great progress in manufacinprogress toward the highest. Herr Wilhelm von tures, has been the benefit engendered by the smallHumboldt has emphasized this principle in his new circles of leading personalities allied to Herr Alexanderprogram for the general education of the population von Humboldt. The productions of Herr List and theof Prussia, a program consistent with the principles of contributions of M. Camot, are among those whichDr. Franklin and other leaders of our own republic, have contributed a great part most directly.According to Herr Humboldt's program, public schools This was the source of the benefits Dr. Marx'smust providea was aeach future citizen of the nation with intellect received when he child and youth inthorough education in the classics and the rudiments Trier, and every impulse which has merit within his! of natural science. This work of the public schools known work is a benefit from that source. At Berlin,must bring forth each of the best potentialities of the under the wicked influence of Professors Hegel, Savigyouth.Until this work of the public schools has been ny, and Feuerbach, Dr. Marx's intellect was corrupted.completed, it is an error to prepare a student for an}' He became an instrument of the Jacobin cause, and ofnarrow choice of future branch of trade or profession, sl that feudal party which traffics profitably in the hedon-In real history, the quality of society has been istic self-degradation of the numerous. In the mostimproved from the top down, not from the bottom essential part of this corruption of his mind, he adoptedup. The great inventions in knowledge of the natural Herr Feuerbach's doctrine of the cult of Isis. Since, hesciences, which have been the distinguishing feature of has regarded man in society as no better than a higherthe modem age, have been the production of small quahty among the beasts. For these beasts, Dr. Marxcircles of extraordinary intellects, who have dedicated believes himself, desire all of the advantages belongingthemselves to acquire the greatest knowledge and to to humanity, inasmuch as a beast can recognize theimprove that knowledge. Herr Leibniz, Dr. Franklin, self-interests of that alien species which is humanity.and M. Camot are among the excellent examples of Toward those who remind him that the superior partthis. It was a tiny group of conspirators who aroused of human nature is a power of reason denied to theand directed the citizens of this nation to create our beast, Dr. Marx summons hatred.republic. It was M. Carnot and a small circle of such Whether Dr. Marx knows that he hates Socrates,persons who created great advancements in industry, Plato, St. Augustine, or Herr Leibniz, we do notnatural science, and warfare, from above the experi- know. He hates their cause, and recognizes that cause inence and opinion of the most numerous, the party which organized the Ninth of Thermidor. If heAs civilization has prospered from these acts of acknowledges what was reflected in the great accomdedicationby the least numerous of our party, it has plishments of Prussia's science and manufactures, hisbeen the least numerous conspirators of the feudal philosophical outlook collapses in its entirety, as simpartywhich have trafficked in the hedonistic degrada- ply and surely as the mere existence of the Americantion of the numerous to accomplish ruin. System refutes entirely his perverted admiration of theIn Prussia today, there is a tendency for the good feudal cause of the British East India Company. Thisand a powerful tendency for the evil. Amid that contest fear gives force to his hatred against the ,cause ofamong circles of that nation's highest rank, Prussia M. Carnot.CAMPAIGNER / October 1983 29