# Endnotes W. H. Hudson, A Traveller in Little Things, pp. 110–112. ↩ Judges make rules of law. On the “will” theory this is an encroachment on the legislative function. Not so, if the judges further define conditions of action. ↩ A Treatise on Human Nature, Part II, Section VII. ↩ Hocking, Man and the State, p. 51. ↩ Ayres, Science: The False Messiah, Chapter IV, “The Lure of Machinery.” ↩ The one obvious exception concerns the tools of waging war. With respect to them, the state has often shown itself as greedy as it has been reluctant and behindhand with reference to other inventions. ↩ This is a convenient place for making explicit a qualification which has to be understood throughout but which is slighted in the text. The words “government” and “officers” are taken functionally, not in terms of some particular structure which is so familiar to us that it leaps to the eyes when these words are used. Both words in their functional meaning are much wider in application than what is meant when we speak, say, of the government and officers of Great Britain or the United States. In households, for example, there have usually been rule and “heads”; the parents, for most purposes the father, have been officers of the family interest. The “patriarchal family” presents an emphatic intensification, on account of comparative isolation of the household from other social forms, of what exists in lesser degree in almost all families. The same sort of remark applies to the use of the term “states,” in connection with publics. The text is concerned with modern conditions, but the hypothesis propounded is meant to hold good generally. So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous functions. The argument concerns these functions and the mode of their operation, no matter what word be used, though for the sake of brevity the word “state,” like the words “government” and “officer,” has been freely employed. ↩ This last position promptly called forth a protest from the head of the utilitarian school, Jeremy Bentham. ↩ C. H. Cooley, Social Organization, Chapter III, on “Primary Groups.” ↩ See Walter Lippmann’s The Phantom Public. To this as well as to his Public Opinion, I wish to acknowledge my indebtedness, not only as to this particular point, but for ideas involved in my entire discussion even when it reaches conclusions diverging from his. ↩ The most adequate discussion of this ideal with which I am acquainted is T. V. Smith’s The Democratic Way of Life. ↩ The religious character of nationalism has been forcibly brought out by Carleton Hayes, in his Essays on Nationalism, especially Chapter IV. ↩ J. S. Mill, Logic, Book VI, Chapter 7, Section I. 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