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Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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...the power [...] has never disarmed, is today in certain respects stronger than ever, possesses a much better disciplined, more unconditionally submissive throng of officials than in any former century, and is only waiting for the hour when it can unscrupulously assert itself.
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(about the Catholic Church)

 
Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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