"Wherever the idea of the nation remains tied to its material and utilitarian definitions, it is already in decline, reduced to a corpse animated only by bureaucratic inertia. A people who fail to recognize their nation as a transcendent force, a cosmic axis upon which history turns, are unworthy of the name. In such cases, their fate is already sealed; they will be reduced to a marketplace, a faceless population drifting toward dissolution, and ultimately, will be replaced. A nation that does not affirm itself as an order unto itself, as a force existing beyond individual wills, is a nation that has already abdicated its destiny."
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