A healthy social organism, therefore, requires, as a second branch
alongside the body economic, the independent political life of the
State. In the separate body economic, the forces of economic life
itself will guide men to such institutions as best serve the production
and interchange of commodities. In the body politic, the State,
institutions will arise, where dealings between individuals and groups
will be settled on lines that satisfy men's sense of right. This demand
for complete separation of the "rights-State" from the economic sphere
proceeds from a standpoint of reality. Reality is not the standpoint of
those who seek to combine the life of rights and economics in one. The
people engaged in economic life of course possess the sense of right,
but they will only be able to legislate and administrate in the
way "right" requires,--i.e., from the sense of right alone without
any admixture of economic interests,--when they come to consider
questions of right independently, in a "rights" State that takes,
quâ State, no part in economic life. A "rights" State, such as this,
has its own legislative and administrative bodies, both constructed
according to those principles that ensue from the modern sense of
right. It will be built up on those impulses in human consciousness,
which go to-day by the name of "democratic." The legislative and
administrative bodies in the economic domain will arise out of the
forces of economic life. Such transactions as are necessary between
the executive heads of the legislative and administrative bodies of
"rights" and economics respectively, will be carried on pretty much as
between the governments of sovereign states to-day. This co-ordination
of the two systems will make it possible for developments in the one
body to exert the needful influence on the other. This influence of
the two spheres on one another is prevented, when one of them tries
to develope within itself the element that should come to it from
the other.
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