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because you have never had them — you don’t know what they
are.”
“A man who accepts the kind of help you speak of from
people he cannot be grateful to is decidedly a plebeian, it seems
to me.”
“Oh, but can’t you understand that one does such a thing
when one knows one has talent — perhaps genius — that craves
to be developed? It seems to me that you, who call yourself
a democrat, should not speak like that about lower-class
individuals.”
“A man who respects his talent does not want to see it
prostituted. As to being a democrat — social democracy is the
craving for justice, and justice claims that men of his type
should be subjugated, pressed down to the very bottom of the
community, chained and forgotten. The real, legitimate lower
class must be thoroughly subdued.”
“A most peculiar socialism,” laughed Hjerrild.
“There is no other for grown-up people. I don’t take into
account those blue-eyed, childish souls who believe that
everybody is good and that all evil is the fault of the community.
If every one were good, the community would be a paradise, but
the vulgar souls spoil it. You find them in every grade of life.
If they are masters, they are cruel and brutal; if they are
servants, they are servile and cringing — and stupid. I have
found them among the socialists too, for that matter — well,
Hermann calls himself a socialist. If they find hands stretched
out to lift them up, they grasp them — and stamp on them
afterwards. If they see a troop marching past, they join it to
get part of the booty, but loyalty and fellowship they have none.
They laugh secretly at the aim, the ideal, and they hate justice,
for they know that if it were to prevail they would come off
badly.
”All those who are afraid of justice I call legitimately
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