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Individualism is thus an attitude of humility before this social process and of tolerance to other opinions, and is the exact opposite of that intellectual hubris which is at root of the demand for comprehensive direction of the social process.

Hitler did not have to destroy democracy; he merely took advantage of the decay of democracy and, at the critical moment, obtained the support of many to whom, though they detested Hitler, he yet seemed the only man strong enough to get things done.