ABSTRACT
The observer of social institutions must face a difficulty because most of language about the organization and objectives of government is made up of polar terms. The only safety which an objective observer can have is the realization of the kind of traps which very necessary words contain if used outside of a narrow frame of reference. The process of creating abstract realities out of polar terms and surrounding them with scholarly definition has always accompanied the decline of great religions. If one escapes from the polar terms, one may see that the little pieces of paper which the German middle class possessed at the end of the War were claims on organizations which had lost their morale. Having put people to work, created loyalties and morale, they became powerful in spite of all the theoretical guesses of observers caught in the polar terms.
