Sublime

The state consists of coercion; and must always be justified from its own point of view in extending the bounds of coercion;

provisional,

Human nature is hunted and has fled into sanctuary.

a thirst for some loyalty that shall unify life,

Those old wild images included a crucial truth. Man is a monster. And he is all the more a monster because one part of him is perfect.

'If a man would commit an inexpiable offence against any society, large or small, let him be successful. They will forgive him any crime but that.'