The Fascists held the same conception of the State as Hegel. It an absolute, all-embracing, omnipotent State, to which the individual completely subordinate. Like the Idealists, the Fascists regard the State the end and the individual as the means, for the State is an imperishab organism while the individual is transitory -“the individual is fleeting, tl State is permanent, the leaves wither, the tree stands.” As a fascist writ says, “For Fascism, State is the end, individuals the means, and its who life consists in using individuals as instruments for its ends.” Hence tl State has all rights, and the individual has none, except those which tl State has given him. He exists for the State and not the State for him.<\/p>