ABSTRACT
The concept of the nation upon which the authors insist, is not an invention of Fascism. Fascism emphasized the grandeur and the beauty of the sacrifice endured as Italy's most significant legacy for the future. From a Mazzinian consciousness of the sanctity of the nation— which, in reality, manifests itself as the State—the people draw the reasons for the customary glorification of the State. The Fascist ethical State, it must be recognized, is no longer the agnostic State of the old liberalism. Fascism seeks a form of governance in which all the social, economic, and intellectual forces are organized in an order more durable and solid, yet more dynamic—so that the healthy and sincere political currents of the nation would flourish. The Fascist State, in order to penetrate and direct the consciousness of its citizens, wishes to organize them in national unity; a unity possessed of a soul.
