When it is said that the state is the highest and ultimate principle in the world, this is entirely correct, provided that it is properly understood. The state is the highest organization of power in the world; it has power over life and death.… The antithesis and the error is that such discussions turn exclusively around the state and do not take the nation into account.
The twentieth century, panic-stricken in the face of nationalist and racist cravings, strains to fill up the chasm of time with production figures or the names of a few political-economic systems; meanwhile, it has renounced investigations of the fine tissue of becoming, where no thread should be overlooked – even the ideas of forgotten Russian sects. What apparently disappears forever is, in fact, imperceptibly transformed.
The common people remember and tell of what they are able to grasp and what they are able to transform into legend.
