ABSTRACT
The fundamental duty of the State is laid down in this very fact: it is to persevere in calling the individual to a moral way of life. If individual rights are to ensure a free functioning of the life of the individual, it only remains to settle what that life involves, to deduce the rights that must be conceded to the individual. Individuals can become instruments of the State without any inconsistency, since the action of the State is towards giving them reality. The planning of the social milieu so that the individual may realise himself more fully, and the management of the collective apparatus in a way that will bear less hard on the individual. True patriotism, it seems, is only exhibited in forms of collective action directed towards the world without; it seems to us as if we could only show loyalty to our own patriotic or national group at times when it is at strife with some other group.
