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If We Go On To Cast A Look At The Fate Of These World-historical Persons, Whose Vocation It Was To Be The Agents Of The World-spirit, We Shall Find It To Have Been No Happy One. They Attained No Calm Enjoyment; Their Whole Life Was Labour And Trouble; Their Whole Nature Was Nought Else But Their Master—passion. When Their Object Is Attained They Fall Off Like Empty Hulls From The Kernel. They Die Early, Like Alexander; They Are Murdered, Like Caesar.

The State Is The Absolute Reality And The Individual Himself Has Objective Existence, Truth And Morality Only In His Capacity As A Member Of The State.

It Is Because The Method Of Physics Does Not Satisfy The Comprehension That We Have To Go On Further.

America Is Therefore The Land Of The Future, Where, In The Ages That Lie Before Us, The Burden Of The World's History Shall Reveal Itself.

Governments Have Never Learned Anything From History, Or Acted On Principles Deducted From It.