ABSTRACT
Certainly the democratic Republic achieved progress in freedom. However, the republic then erected through defeat, in contrast to the republics in Switzerland and in the United States founded on victory, lacked a necessary element of prestige from its very beginning. Adapted to a slave existence they lost, together with the oppressive regulations, the conditioned reflexes with which the normal functioning of their morality was bound up. There is a great factor to be considered in the obvious slowing up of the progress of mankind. Only by winning a great prestige, for instance, by establishing a union of Germany with Austria, which Chancellor Bruening attempted, could the freedom of the German Republic have been saved and the progress in freedom have been preserved. The safer way for progress in freedom is the way of the gradual removal of barriers and restraints one after another with the full conservation of all gains already made.
