ABSTRACT
Freedom is people's main ideal, their watchword, and the source of such inspiration as must lead men into battle if they are to believe that they are fighting for positive values rather than defending an outworn system. A comparison and even a certain equation has been made between the conditions which must have obtained in primitive humanity and those which determine the processes of the modern cultures. State control is necessary; but state control in democracy is invariably carried out through the division of powers, by legal institutions which are independent of direct central regulation. The peaceful and constructive organization on the basis of common culture we have labelled as the principle of nationhood. Totalitarianism denies all these principles; the main indictment which can be made against it by the student of culture is that it induces a centralized control referring to all phases of human existence. The prevention and outlawry of war is the concern of all humanity.
