ABSTRACT
In philosophy, history and the social fields the destruction is virtually complete. They have gone least far in the natural sciences, but even there the claim is made that eminence is a function of race and political "reliability" rather than technical achievement in our sense. The apparently growing acuteness of the conflict with the Christian churches is probably equally important and symptomatic. And there perhaps of deepest significance is the clear-cut challenge to the fundamental principle of religious universalism which has stood fast ever since St. Paul, that salvation was open to every human being regardless of his race or social condition. This chapter discusses two points rather than the invasion of civil rights or the destruction of political democracy because National Socialism is far more than a "political" movement in any narrow sense. It discusses the ethical attitude toward National Socialism for the person seriously imbued with the ideals of science and the academic profession.
