2. Spiritualised Conception.

Fascism would therefore not be understood in many of its

manifestations (as, for example, in its organisations of the Party,

its system of education, its discipline) were it not considered in the

light of its general view of life. A spiritualised view.

To Fascism the world is not this material world which appears on the

surface, in which man is an individual separated from all other men,

standing by himself and subject to a natural law which instinctively

impels him to lead a life of momentary and egoistic pleasure. In

Fascism man is an individual who is the nation and the country. He is

this by a moral law which embraces and binds together individuals and

generations in an established tradition and mission, a moral law which

suppresses the instinct to lead a life confined to a brief cycle of

pleasure in order, instead, to replace it within the orbit of duty in

a superior conception of life, free from the limits of time and space

a life in which the individual by self-abnegation and by the sacrifice

of his particular interests, even by death, realises the entirely

spiritual existence in which his value as a man consists.

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