"The State," says Treitschke, "is a moral community.

It is called upon to educate the human race by positive achievement, and its ultimate object is that a nation should develop in it and through it into a real character; that is, alike for nation and individuals, the highest moral task." This highest expansion can never be realized in pure individualism.

Man can only develop his highest capacities when he takes his part in a community, in a social organism, for which he lives and works.

He must be in a family, in a society, in the State, which draws the individual out of the narrow circles in which he otherwise would pass his life, and makes him a worker in the great common interests of humanity.

The State alone, so Schleiermacher once taught, gives the individual the highest degree of life.[E] [Footnote E: To expand the idea of the State into that of humanity, and thus to entrust apparently higher duties to the individual, leads to error, since in a human race conceived as a whole struggle and, by Implication, the most essential vital principle would be ruled out.