A BRIEF SURVEY OF GERMANY'S HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT The life of the individual citizen is valuable only when it is consciously and actively employed for the attainment of great ends.

The same holds good of nations and States.

They are, as it were, personalities in the framework of collective humanity, infinitely various in their endowments and their characteristic qualities, capable of the most different achievements, and serving the most multifarious purposes in the great evolution of human existence.
Such a theory will not be accepted from the standpoint of the materialistic philosophy which prevails among wide circles of our nation to-day.
According to it, all that happens in the world is a necessary consequence of given conditions; free will is only necessity become conscious.

It denies the difference between the empiric and the intelligible Ego, which is the basis of the notion of moral freedom.
This philosophy cannot stand before scientific criticism.

It seems everywhere arbitrarily restricted by the narrow limits of the insufficient human intelligence.