Abstract
SCHOLARS are to-day busy tracing the spiritual antecedents, before Pan-Germanism, of Herr Hitler. Substantial work has shown the linear connexion with Luther. Prof. Collingwood even triumphantly exposed the scalp of an ancestor in the person of Thomas à Kempis. A study of the similarity of Hitler and Mr. G. B. Shaw has yet to be made. The similarity with Carlyle (and dissimilarity with Emerson) is substantial and extensive in the vertical line, when all allowance is made for the fact that Hitler, Carlyle and Emerson are all horizontally men of their time and place.
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CATLIN, G. Genealogy of Human Folly. Nature 153, 61 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153061b0
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