Historians of the sentimental school have sometimes regretted that the State became absolute, while at the same time rejoicing that it installed plebeians in office. They deceive themselves. The State exalted plebeians just because it aimed at becoming absolute; it became absolute because it had exalted plebeians.

Where will it all end? In the destruction of all other commands for the benefit of one alone - that of the state. In each man's absolute freedom from every family and social authority, a freedom the price of which is complete submission to the state. In the complete equality as between themselves of all citizens, paid for by their equal abasement before the power of their absolute master - the state. In the disappearance of every constraint which does not emanate from the state, and in the denial of every pre-eminence which is not approved by the state. In a word, it ends in the atomization of society, and in the rupture of every private tie linking man and man, whose only bond is now their common bondage to the state. The extremes of individualism and socialism meet: that was their predestined course.

Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all. Men worry more about what they can’t see than what they can.