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It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.
Christian Lous Lange
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Christian Lous Lange
Age: 69 †
Born: 1869
Born: September 17
Died: 1938
Died: December 11
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Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
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History shows us that other highly developed forms of civilization have collapsed. Who knows whether the same fate does not await our own?
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The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
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Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the territorial state economically and technically, we live under the auspices of worldwide communications and worldwide markets.
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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
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