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I have, says he,
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He would have no
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and yet this extra reason alone accomplishes everything. Just so Mirabeau inveighs in the words,
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No power on earth has the _right_ to say to the nation's representatives, It is my will!
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But the Greek fell into ignominy along with his _State_, the citizen of heaven likewise falls with heaven; we, on the other hand, are not willing to go down along with the _people_, the nation and nationality, not willing to be merely _political_ men or politicians. Since the Revolution they have striven to
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On Taking Part in the State. There complaint is made of those who are indifferent and do not take part, who are not in the full sense citizens, and the author speaks as if one could not be man at all if one did not take a lively part in State affairs, _i. e._ if one were not a politician. In this he is right; for, if the State ranks as the warder of everything
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we can have nothing human without taking part in it. But what does this make out against the egoist? Nothing at all, because the egoist is to himself the warder of the human, and has nothing to say to the State except
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Get out of my sunshine. Only when the State comes in contact with his ownness does the egoist take an active interest in it. If the condition of the State does not bear hard on the closet-philosopher, is he to occupy himself with it because it is his
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? So long as the State does according to his wish, what need has he to look up from his studies? Let those who from an interest of their own want to have conditions otherwise busy themselves with them. Not now, nor evermore, will
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bring folks to reflect about the State,--as little as they become disciples of science, artists, etc., from
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Egoism alone can impel them to it, and will as soon as things have become much worse. If you showed folks that their egoism demanded that they busy themselves with State affairs, you would not have to call on them long; if, on the other hand, you appeal to their love of fatherland and the like, you will long preach to deaf hearts in behalf of this
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Man completely fulfils his calling only in feeling and knowing himself as a member of humanity, and being active as such. The individual cannot realize the idea of _manhood_ if he does not stay himself upon all humanity, if he does not draw his powers from it like Antæus.
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Man's relation to the _res publica_ is degraded to a purely private matter by the theological view; is, accordingly, made away with by denial. As if the political view did otherwise with religion! There religion is a
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the
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and similar commandments, it were held up to people that their _self-interest_ was infringed on when they let everything in the State go as it goes, then, without declamations, they would be addressed as one will have to address them at the decisive moment if he wants to attain his end. Instead of this, the theology-hating author says,
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If there has ever been a time when the _State_ laid claim to all that are _hers_, such a time is ours.--The thinking man sees in participation in the theory and practice of the State a _duty_, one of the most sacred duties that rest upon him --and then takes under closer consideration the