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We may follow the process even further. Sup- 

 pose that the administrative districts of Bavaria, 

 such as Franconia, Suabia, and the Palatinate, 

 should proclaim themselves sovereign, and com- 

 mence to wage war. There would no longer be a 

 Bavarian State. Or suppose that in Franconia 

 the cities of Bayreuth, Bamberg, and Hof divided 

 up into sovereign imities; the Franconian State 

 would cease to exist. In the same way, we may 

 follow the process down to the ancient six hundred 

 German sovereignties, principalities, free cities, 

 etc., or even down to the Bezirks and villages. 

 If war is established between the small units, 

 the State formed by the superior unit is destroyed. 

 Finally, going to the lowest limit, if even in a 

 village each house became a unit free to declare 

 war, the existence of the State would be suppressed 

 completely and absolutely, since it is impossible 

 to give the name of State to the inhabitants of a 

 single house. 



Suppose now that we follow the process in the 

 inverse direction. What was it that prevented 

 for so long a time, the creation of the State called 

 Greece? It was because Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, 

 and Athens were not willing to renoimce the 

 right to wage war on each other. At the present 

 time, these cities would consider it insane to 

 wage war on each other; they desire to remain 

 in juridical relations, and not in anarchistic re- 

 lations. As a consequence, the State of Greece 

 does exist. It is war, then, which prevented the 



