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“Since Hagel’s day at the beginning of the last century, it has increasingly been an implicit aspect of political theory in the western world that the state is God walking on earth. The humanists do believe in an incarnation, the forces in history the Geist as Hagel said, the spirit working and evolving in history, regularly incarnates itself in the state; so the state is God walking on earth.”

— R. J. Rushdoony