The national State must lose no time in clearing away such imperfections.
The second alteration required by our school system is as follows :
A sharp cleavage must be effected between general and specialized technical training. Since the latter threatens to sink into the service of Mammon more and more, general education, at least in its ideal conception, must continue to act as counterweight to it. We must cling to the principle that industry and technical science and trade can only flourish as long as a national com¬ munity, with high ideals, provides the necessary setting. By this is meant not material selfishness, but readiness for sacrifice and joy in renunciation.
To-day there is no clear definition of the “State” as a conception ; nothing is left to be taught but local patriotism. In the old Germany it mostly took the form of somewhat dim glorification of minute poten¬ tates, whose very numbers made any worthy apprecia¬ tion of the greatness of our nation a matter of impos¬ sibility from the start. The result was that our people as a