On Sunday, January 2, 2005 at 19:17:59 (-0600) Carrol Cox writes: >Bill Lear wrote: >> >> On Sunday, January 2, 2005 at 17:54:01 (-0600) Carrol Cox writes: >> >"Perelman, Michael" wrote: >> >> >> >> the romantic movement, which in turn helped to inspire the >> >> Nazis. >> > >> >O come now. This could be true only in so far as ... >> >> You are confusing "causing" with "inspiring". The Nazis were deeply >> rooted in the romantic. The Germanic hero, flawless and free of any >> weakness toward enemies was deeply romantic. > >But my point was that so is everything else of the last two centuries.
Sorry, but Rational Humanism, even of the rather tame Jeffersonian variety, was not an inspiration for the Nazis. The Nazis believed, or at least projected the belief, that they were romantic heroes, Siegfried's all, coming to rescue of mankind from the untermenschen. Bill
