only display itself in men and in movements, and history
will decide whether these men or movements could rightly
claim to be the representatives of the people's will.[21]

Every identification of the state with the people is false
from a legal and untenable from a political standpoint ...
The state is the law-forming organization and the law serves
the inner order of the community; the people is the
politically active organism and politics serve the outward
maintenance of the community ... But law receives its
character from the people and politics must reckon with the
state as the first and most important factor.[22]

The "nation" is the product of this interplay and balance between the
state and the people. The original and vital force of the people,
through the organization of the state, realizes itself fully in the
unified communal life of the nation:

The nation is the complete agreement between organism and
organization, the perfect formation of a naturally grown
being. ... _Nationalism_ is nothing more than the outwardly
directed striving to maintain this inner unity of people and
state, and _socialism_ is the inwardly directed striving for
the same end.[23]

Dr. Herbert Scurla, Government Councilor and Reich's Minister for
Science, Education, and Folk Culture, in a pamphlet entitled _Die
Grundgedanken des Nationalsozialismus und das Ausland (Basic
Principles of National Socialism With Special Reference to Foreign
Countries_), also emphasizes the importance of the _Volk_ in the