The state is but a mere phantom in the pantheon of the gods.

"Such lunacy does this strange fellow utters, and writes in pen," you say quietly to yourself. I shall only hastily respond with the following: "if such a bold aphorism constitutes lunacy, then - do I dare say - where does that place a fellow who believes in something that is an abstraction yet behaves as if it were a physical entity; for, do they not call such things delusions amongst the men of science - the psychologists?"