“For already the myth is being carefully built up. Hitler is to be the Messiah of organic evolution—the anti-Christ of the will to power, which is not a will to national power but a will to power per se, the liberation of the lustfully destructive from any inhibitions whatsoever.”

Source: "Let the Record Speak" 1939, p. 358 (newspaper column: “The Revolution of Nihilism,” May 8, 1939)

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