[p. 581]
|581| and compelled to throw itself into peculiarities, then so deep a perversity enters into it that it now applies its strength to this disunion from others and goes on to madness in the assertion of its separation; for madness is nothing other than the completed separation of the individual from his kind, and if the German nation [even] is not capable of raising its obstinacy in the particular to the madness of the Jewish nation, that nation irreconcilable with others in sociability and community, if it [even] cannot arrive at this wickedness of separation, of murdering and letting itself be murdered until the state is shattered, nevertheless the particular and privilege and preference is something so intimately personal that the concept and the insight into necessity is far too weak to work upon action itself; the concept and insight carry with them something so distrustful of themselves that they must be justified by force, and then man submits to them.
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