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Der Mensch ist gut

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The phrase "Der Mensch ist gut" translates to "Man Is Good" and is the title of a 1917 work by German Expressionist novelist and playwright Leonhard Frank. Frank used a concise prose style to explore themes of the individual spirit being crushed by bourgeois society. "Man Is Good" was a revolutionary denunciation of war, published while Frank was in Switzerland due to his opposition to World War I. The term "mensch" is Yiddish for a person of integrity and honor.1

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