human
The criminal is in the utmost degree the State's own crime! says Bettina.[139] One may let this sentiment pass, even if Bettina herself does not understand it exactly so. For in the State the unbridled I--I, as I belong to myself alone--cannot come to my fulfilment and realization. Every ego is from birth a criminal to begin with against the people, the State. Hence it is that it does really keep watch over all; it sees in each one an--egoist, and it is afraid of the egoist. It presumes the worst about each one, and takes care, police-care, that
gpt
_ne quid respublica detrimenti capiat_. The unbridled ego--and this we originally are, and in our secret inward parts we remain so always--is the never-ceasing criminal in the State. The man whom his boldness, his will, his inconsiderateness and fearlessness lead is surrounded with spies by the State, by the people. I say, by the people! The people (think it something wonderful, you good-hearted folks, what you have in the people)--the people is full of police sentiments through and through.--Only he who renounces his ego, who practises
human
;[140] but it is not sick; rather is it in its full strength, when it puts from it the demagogues who want to acquire something for the individuals, for
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In its believers it is provided with the best demagogues (leaders of the people). According to Bettina, the State is to[141]
human
It cannot do otherwise, for in its very caring for
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(which, besides, would have to be the
human
or
gpt
State to begin with) the
human
is raven-fodder for it. How rightly speaks the burgomaster, on the other hand:[143]
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What? the State has no other duty than to be merely the attendant of incurable invalids?--That isn't to the point. From of old the healthy State has relieved itself of the diseased matter, and not mixed itself with it. It does not need to be so economical with its juices. Cut off the robber-branches without hesitation, that the others may bloom.--Do not shiver at the State's harshness; its morality, its policy and religion, point it to that. Accuse it of no want of feeling; its sympathy revolts against this, but its experience finds safety only in this severity! There are diseases in which only drastic remedies will help. The physician who recognizes the disease as such, but timidly turns to palliatives, will never remove the disease, but may well cause the patient to succumb after a shorter or longer sickness! Frau Rat's question,
human
If you apply death as a drastic remedy, how is the cure to be wrought then?
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For the invalid State the only way of salvation is to make man flourish in it. [144] If one here, like Bettina, understands by man the concept
human
Man, she is right; the
gpt
State will recover by the flourishing of
human
Man, for, the more infatuated the individuals are with
gpt
Man, the better it serves the State's turn. But, if one referred it to the individuals, to
human
(and the authoress half does this too, because about
gpt
Man she is still involved in vagueness), then it would sound somewhat like the following: For an invalid band of robbers the only way of salvation is to make the loyal citizen flourish in it! Why, thereby the band of robbers would simply go to ruin as a band of robbers; and, because it perceives this, it prefers to shoot every one who has a leaning toward becoming a
human
; but you think surreptitiously to get beyond sin, you do not comprehend--for you are devil-fearing--that guilt is the value of a man. Oh, if you were guilty! But now you are