September 1st, 1997 International Caucus of Labor Committee / Schiller Institute semi annual conference, Sunday panel with Helga was on the subject of “How Aesthetical Education Determines the Moral Character.” Mrs. LaRouche a leading scholar of Cardinal Nicolaus of Cusa and the German poet of freedom, Friedrich Schiller. She directly tackled the
requirements of leadership during the current period of crisis, likening it to the 14th-century Dark Age, in which half the population of Europe was wiped out by disease, famine, and war. Yet, the Dark Age was followed by the Golden Renaissance, the greatest outpouring of creativity in human history. She counterposed the present threat of a new Dark Age of death and misery, to the appreciation of Classical beauty, and the potential for true creativity. Using the aesthetical writings of Schiller, and Lyndon LaRouche’s 1973 writings on the subject of “beyond psychoanalysis,” Mrs. LaRouche developed how individuals can develop their character through mastering the greatest discoveries in art, science, and statecraft.