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A policy which is fundamentally peaceful, on the other hand, would at first make possible the preservation of its
best blood carriers, but on the whole it would educate the Folk to a weakness which, one day, must lead to
failure, once the basis of existence of such a Folk appears to be threatened. Then, instead of fighting for daily
bread, the nation rather will cut down on this bread and, what is even more probable, limit the number of people
either through peaceful emigration or through birth control, in order in this way to escape an enormous distress.
Thus the fundamentally peaceful policy becomes a scourge for a Folk. For what, on the one hand, is effected by
permanent war, is effected on the other by emigration. Through it a Folk is slowly robbed of its best blood in
hundreds of thousands of individual life catastrophes. It is sad to know that our whole national political wisdom,
insofar as it does not see any advantage at all in emigration, at most deplores the weakening of the number of its
own people, or at best speaks of a cultural fertiliser which is thereby given to other States. What is not perceived
is the worst. Since the emigration does not proceed according to territory, nor according to age categories, but
instead remains subject to the free rule of fate, it always drains away from a Folk the most courageous and the
boldest people, the most determined and most prepared for resistance. The peasant youth who emigrated to
America 150 years ago was as much the most determined and most adventurous man in his village as the
worker who today goes to Argentina. The coward and weakling would rather die at home than pluck up the
courage to earn his bread in an unknown, foreign land. Regardless whether it is distress, misery, political
pressure or religious compulsion that weighs on people, it will always be those who are the healthiest and the
most capable of resistance who will be able to put up the most resistance.
