ABSTRACT
The call for leaders becomes ever clearer and more urgent. Until now it has certainly occurred to few that the problem of the education of leaders should be taken seriously. The education of leaders, therefore, must be, first and foremost, an education of the will—that is, a systematic development of their energy to its highest achievements in strength, certainty and independence. The cry for a leader is as yet only the cry for the strong man, who will undertake the responsibility of ensuring life for the citizen. Leaders have been raised up in democracies at all times. In the autocracy the leader is imposed upon the nation—if it is a monarchy in form—by the accident of birth. Democracy does not suffice to ensure that the fittest becomes leader, for in the democratic party machinery the selfless spirit of the genuine republican does not necessarily prevail.
