As a political people the natural community becomes
conscious of its solidarity and strives to form itself, to
develop itself, to defend itself, to realize itself.
"Nationalism" is essentially this striving of a people which
has become conscious of itself toward self-direction and
self-realization, toward a deepening and renewing of its
natural qualities.

This consciousness of self, springing from the consciousness
of a historical idea, awakens in a people its will to
historical formation: the will to action. The political
people is no passive, sluggish mass, no mere object for the
efforts of the state at government or protective welfare
work ... The great misconception of the democracies is that
they can see the active participation of the people only in
the form of plebiscites according to the principle of
majority. In a democracy the people does not act as a unit
but as a complex of unrelated individuals who form
themselves into parties ... The new Reich is based on the
principle that real action of a self-determining people is
only possible according to the principle of leadership and
following.[9]

According to Huber, geographical considerations play a large part in
the shaping of a people:

The people stands in a double relation, to its lands; it
settles and develops the land, but the land also stamps and
determines the people ... That a certain territory belongs
to a certain people is not justified by state authority