[152] Cf. André Siegfried, _La démocratie en Nouvelle Zelande_, Paris, 1904. Transcriber’s Notes Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. The spelling of non-English words was not checked. Simple typographical errors were corrected. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Page 100: Closing quotation mark added after “valuable consignments.” Page 126 or 127: Missing footnote anchor “62”. Page 128 or 129: Missing footnote anchor “67”. Pages 134-138: Missing footnote anchor “75”. Pages 207-208: Missing footnote anchors “123” through “127”. Pages 220-225: Missing footnote anchor “132”. Page 254: Paragraph beginning “The external reason” probably should be “The internal reason”. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The State, by Franz Oppenheimer