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The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. ”
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ”
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists. ”
Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries. ”
Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. ”
Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. ”