Fascism is a religious conception in which man is considered to be in
the powerful grip of a superior law, with an objective will which
transcends the particular individual and elevates him into a fully
conscious member of a spiritual society. Anyone who has stopped short
at the mere consideration of opportunism in the religious policy of
the Fascist Regime, has failed to understand that Fascism, besides
being a system of government, is also a system of thought.


6. Historical and Realist Conception.

Fascism is an historical conception in which man could not be what he
is without being a factor in the spiritual process to which he
contributes, either in the family sphere or in the social sphere, in
the nation or in history in general to which all nations contribute.
Hence is derived the great importance of tradition in the records,
language, customs and rules of human society. Man without a part in
history is nothing.

For this reason Fascism is opposed to all the abstractions of an
individualistic character based upon materialism typical of the
Eighteenth Century; and it is opposed to all the Jacobin innovations
and utopias. It does not believe in the possibility of "happiness" on
earth as conceived by the literature of the economists of the
Seventeenth Century; it therefore spurns all the teleological
conceptions of final causes through which, at a given period of
history, a final systematisation of the human race would take place.
Such theories only mean placing oneself outside real history and
life, which is a continual ebb and flow and process of realisations.