"[I]t is the sacred duty of the State to intervene so that the struggle may contribute to ideal ends that are universal. Hence the significance of the force or power of the State. Unlike other forms of force, it has a sort of sacred import, for it represents force consecrated to the assertion and expansion of final goods which are spiritual, moral, rational.?[Progressive]"
"[T]he State, if not avowedly something mystic and transcendental, is at least a moral entity, the creation of a self-conscious reason operating in behalf of the spiritual and ideal interests of its members. Its function is cultural, educative . . .?[Progressive]"
"Germany is the modern state which provides the greatest facilities for general ideas to take effect through social inculcation. Its system of ideas is adapted to that end. Higher schools and universities are really, not just nominally, under the control of the state and part of the state life . . . . Moreover, one of the chief functions of the universities is the preparation of future state officers. Legislative activity is distinctively subordinate to that of administration conducted by a train"
"Liberalism is committed to the idea of historic relativity. It knows that the content of the individual and freedom change with time; that this is as true of social change as it is of individual development from infancy to maturity. The positive counterpart of opposition to doctrinal absolutism is experimentalism. The connection between historic relativity and experimental method is intrinsic. Time signifies change. The significance of individuality with respect to social policies alters with ch"