the best expression of this concept. Second, since this truth, an infallible truth, is without any transcendental reference, it is a truth which changes from age to age: as Frothingham said, “The life of the times appoints the creed of the times.” Every age has its new spirit, its new truth, and its new infallible word. And since man cannot transcend himself or his age, and has no transcendental truth, man’s organized spirit, the state, becomes the infallible word over man. The reign of the great
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