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I have Said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

"Constitutions becomes the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.