200 Declining Effectiveness of Force 



formation of the Hellenic State during so many- 

 centuries. 



The philosophy of force, seeing that certain 

 modem nations have been formed as a result of 

 coercive wars, has concluded in a superficial fashion 

 that war has formed all states. But how is it 

 possible to fail to see that in order to force two 

 social unities to amalgamate into a single one, it is 

 necessary that at least one of these imities should 

 desire to maintain a state of war, or in other terms, 

 anarchistic relations? If the two units consent to 

 form an alliance (to establish juridical relations), 

 the employment of force would become completely 

 superfluous. If, in 1861, the North was obliged to 

 employ force, this was solely because the South, 

 in firing on Fort Sumter, showed that it was 

 determined to employ force against the North. 

 When the force of attack was neutralized by the 

 force of defence, the way was reopened for the 

 real binding forces of common interests, economic, 

 social and moral, to re-establish the Union. In 

 the same way, it was the common interests of 

 the German people, economic, social and moral, 

 expressed in their passionate longing to be united 

 through long generations, and illustrated by the 

 national uprising of 1813 and the Frankfort 

 Parliament of 1848, which finally made it possible 

 to break down the resistance of the six hundred 

 kings, princes, electors, etc., who did not wish to 

 give up their sovereignty, i. e., the right to declare 

 war on each other whenever they so desired. 



