It is from this same determination that civilized nations regard and treat other nations which lag behind them in the substantial moments of the state — pastoral peoples regarding hunting peoples, agricultural peoples regarding both of these, and so on — as barbarians, with the consciousness of an unequal right, and regard their independence as something merely formal.

In the wars and conflicts that arise under such conditions, it is accordingly the moment that they are struggles for recognition in relation to a determinate content which constitutes the feature that gives them a significance for world history.