Already in the times of the Antonines (2nd Century), the State overbears society with its anti-vital supremacy. Society begins to be enslaved, to be unable to live except in the service of the State. The whole of life is bureaucratized. What are the results? The bureaucratization of life brings about its absolute decay in all orders. Wealth diminishes, and births are few. Then the State, in order to attend to its own needs, forces on still more the bureaucratization of human existence.
