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Show 88 it is the philosophy of the single willed state that demands but a single loyalty. Leoders in single-willed states demand thct the s;tote shan have on·. aU--his mind, his soul, his futu.re, and his past. Democracy makfli no such demand on mQn Q$ that. Democracy teQChes that we een be loyal to our God without being disloyal to our StGte; we can be loyal to our family without being disloyal to our God; we eon be loyol to our friends without being dis. loyal to our parents •. Thus in developing many loyahie$, American democracy has broken thot element which would bring its destruction, and American demoercacy reflects the eorrollery of our text, for if In us all there is the element of our about destruction, our if we toke element out salvation. 33 we may bring Further he said: The weQkneues of democracy that Mussolini ond Hitler used to point out ore democroey's greatest strength. They failed to see the possibilities of any unity among free men. Their great mistake WG$ merely that of Q$$umlng thot unity con come only by the destruction of the individual in his service to (2 single will. 'You will unit. becouse you must,' said Hitler. 'We will unite because it is right to do so. • Make every individual in says the American people. democrocy well trained Gnd you may be assured of its intelli gent direction. A trained citizenry is the greatest osset any notion can have. Tt.t is pure unadulterated Americanism. The stote is important and we should be reody to give our lives 'or it, but it is not aU-important from the Amerlcon standpoint. It fs important only to the extent that it serves tM't which is of greater importance. It is men, women, and children that ore important. The stote was made for mon iust as the Sabhoth, and man not either for the state or the Sabbath. 34 •• 33 IIRel igion and Democracy, Congressional Record, Vol. 84, (76th Congress, 1 st Sess., /oAay 22, 1939). p, 2111 In another statement, Thomas has defined the single-will state: '<No man eon no man can be saved, except as port of the whole. Only one intelligence is needed, thot of the leader. That, in theory, is the essence of the single-will philoso phy. It is the very antitheses of democracy, which demands that there be many inde pendent Intell Igeneies, and today it again presents democrocy in its basic: theory with its greatest challenge. letter from Elbert D. Thomas to Frank H. Jonas, September 13, 1943. 34 Congressional Record, Vol. 91, p. A2S17, (79th Congress, 1st session, June be free, 5, 1945. |
