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Railroads are to the more penetrating eye the way to a _life of the people_ such as has not yet anywhere appeared in such significance. Quite right, it will be a life of the people that has nowhere appeared, because it is not a--life of the people.--So Carriere then combats himself (p. 10):
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Pure humanity or manhood cannot be better represented than by a people fulfilling its mission. Why, by this nationality only is represented.
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Washed-out generality is lower than the form complete in itself, which is itself a whole, and lives as a living member of the truly general, the organized. Why, the people is this very
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and it is only a man that is the
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is clear also from this: that a people which wants to bring its I into view to the best of its power puts at its head the ruler _without will_. It finds itself in the alternative either to be subjected to a prince who realizes only _himself, his individual_ pleasure--then it does not recognize in the
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its own will, the so-called will of the people--, or to seat on the throne a prince who gives effect to _no_ will of his _own_--then it has a prince _without will_, whose place some ingenious clockwork would perhaps fill just as well.--Therefore insight need go only a step farther; then it becomes clear of itself that the I of the people is an impersonal,
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power, the--law. The people's I, therefore, is a--spook, not an I. I am I only by this, that I make myself; _i. e._ that it is not another who makes me, but I must be my own work. But how is it with this I of the people? _Chance_ plays it into the people's hand, chance gives it this or that born lord, accidents procure it the chosen one; he is not its (the