The Mustache Is an Effect, Not a Cause of His Rantsings

Nicolaus M. Wel was an anti-Semite, but his sister tried to create a reputation for him that was undeserved. He popularized this notion of talking about the pirit of the times and how the different intellectual trends will interact with each other to produce something new. Wel emphasizes in a number of places he doesn't believe in free will, that that's just something that was made up along with modern morality.