12. The Rôle of the State.

The Fascist State, the highest and the most powerful form of

personality is a force, but a spiritual one. It reassumes all the

forms of the moral and intellectual life of man. It cannot, therefore,

be limited to a simple function of order and of safeguarding, as was

contended by Liberalism. It is not a simple mechanism which limits the

sphere of the presumed individual liberties. It is an internal form

and rule, a discipline of the entire person: it penetrates the will as

well as the intelligence. Its principle, a central inspiration of the

living human personality in the civil community, descends into the

depths and settles in the heart of the man of action as well as the

thinker, of the artist as well as of the scientist; the soul of our

soul.

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