71:0.2 The [[modern]] [[state]] is the [[institution]] which [[survived]] in the long [[struggle]] for [[group]] [[power]]. Superior [[power]] [[eventually]] prevailed, and it produced a [[creature]] of [[fact]]—the [[state]]—together with the [[moral]] [[myth]] of the [[absolute]] [[obligation]] of the [[citizen]] to live and die for the [[state]]. But the [[state]] is not of [[divine]] [[genesis]]; it was not even produced by [[volition]]ally [[intelligent]] [[human]] [[action]]; it is [[purely]] an [[evolutionary]] [[institution]] and was wholly [[automatic]] in [[origin]]. | 71:0.2 The [[modern]] [[state]] is the [[institution]] which [[survived]] in the long [[struggle]] for [[group]] [[power]]. Superior [[power]] [[eventually]] prevailed, and it produced a [[creature]] of [[fact]]—the [[state]]—together with the [[moral]] [[myth]] of the [[absolute]] [[obligation]] of the [[citizen]] to live and die for the [[state]]. But the [[state]] is not of [[divine]] [[genesis]]; it was not even produced by [[volition]]ally [[intelligent]] [[human]] [[action]]; it is [[purely]] an [[evolutionary]] [[institution]] and was wholly [[automatic]] in [[origin]]. |