“Who is this person that you call “All”? – It is “society”! – But is it corporeal, then? – We are its body! – You? Why, you are not a body yourselves; – you, sir, are corporeal to be sure, you too, and you, but you all together are only bodies, not a body. Accordingly the united society may indeed have bodies at its service, but no one body of its own. Like the “nation” of the politicians, it will turn out to be nothing but a “spirit,” its body only semblance.”
