97. So "right" or State power, is still far from being perfect, especially because it is only of a national character. And that means that any kind of State power or system of law and justice is concerned with just a single territory where the frontiers have been fixed as a consequence of previous selfishness and plundering during military occupations, which sometimes have left behind repercussions in the form of smouldering and fermenting dissatisfaction that can again give rise to war. In this way, the whole of terrestrial humanity is divided up into many "State powers" which are the same as "nations". But as these nations are chiefly independent, which here means that they represent a specific people, its morals and character, then just like individual terrestrial persons, they become the expression of selfishness, and more or less the manifestation of: "Every man for himself". Nations can be compared to individuals - they have a character, and can be moral or immoral. Accordingly, all the nations of the world could be expressed as a community, the single "individuals" of which are the nations. But there would be a difference between this "community" and an ordinary community in that the former is still without a system of law and justice. It has no government. There is no police force. The single "individuals" (nations) are at the mercy of themselves and must help themselves by their own power and strength. If this condition were transferred to a single State, what would be the result? It would simply mean that the single individuals could do exactly as they pleased at their own discretion and in accordance with their own power and strength. The weak would be struck down. Peace would be impossible. Everyone would have to carry a gun or be armed in some way. Every home would have its defenders and its firearms. And it is precisely such conditions which would dominate a "community" whose "individuals" were the nations. Here, as mentioned before, there is no police force. The single "individuals" have to "bear arms", which therefore means permanent armed forces. Every "human being" (each nation) would have to assert its rights. Every person would do his own policing. Within such a "community", everyone must yield to the strongest, to "might" rather than to "right". Here no notice is taken if a single "individual" (a single nation) is conquered and destroyed.
      If we consider terrestrial humanity as a whole in the above-mentioned way, in the form of a State, the individuals of which are nations, we will then see that this "State" finds itself at the evolutionary stage of the people of the Stone Age as regards administration, social order and living conditions, and the only stronger development it shows is in its manifestation of animal-like cruelty. So all "individuals" have evolved to that stage of carrying weapons (the armed forces) which are not only "sharper" than the flint tools of the Stone Age people, but represent, moreover, a very extensive and eminently evolved system of murder, in which all ways and means of the "killing principle" have been developed with genius. Added to this, all the "individuals" (the nations) - within the areas of exploitation and greed - are each of them equipped with a correspondingly developed intelligence which, under the concept of "business", manages to disguise the manifestations of theft and covetousness into appearing as heroic deeds and ideals. So we are here witnessing that within the terrestrial human community there is still a large area in which the animal kingdom or "might is right" exists nearly in pure essence. "Right", or the absolute "humane" principle of life - "right is might" - is thus still far from having reached full perfection, or its final goal which is to embrace all aspects of terrestrial mankind.