“The history of mankind can be seen, in the large, as the realization of Nature’s secret plan to bring forth a perfectly constituted state as the only condition in which the capacities of mankind can be fully developed, and also bring forth that external relation among states which is perfectly adequate to this end.”

—  Immanuel Kant

Eighth Thesis
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)

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