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Flight of his thoughts (which, I do not doubt, is pathological We may c As regards liberty ', Hegel consider liberty next. in defined former the times, writes, rights, the private as legally " called its a liberties ". , were ' Really, every genuine law is a liberty ; for it contains a reasonable principle which means, in other words, that it embodies ; . c . ' liberty ' law is . Now this argument which tries to show that same as a liberty and therefore the same as from which it follows that the more laws, the more liberty, a liberty ', is .
The principle of the national state, that is to say, the political demand that the territory of every state should coincide with the territory inhabited by one nation, is by no means so self-evident as it seems to appear to many not at all clear mental Even people to-day. knew what he meant when he spoke of nationality, it if anyone would be nationality should be accepted as a fundacategory, more important for instance than why political religion, or birth within a certain geographical region, or loyalty to a dynasty, or a political creed like democracy (which forms, one might say, the uniting factor of multi-lingual SwitzerBut while religion, territory, or a political creed can land).
Of the argument, and in despair he dives into a collectivist 43 The mysticism (of Rousseau's making) and into historicism " the of a constiTo whom belongs making power question " " Who has to make the Spirit of a is the same as tution ? Nation ? ". Separate your idea of a constitution ', Hegel exclaims, from that of a collective Spirit, as if the latter exists, or has existed, without a constitution, and your fancy proves how (namely, that superficially you have apprehended the nexus It is the indwelling between the Spirit and the constitution).