So to the patent objection that the state is a very modern institution, it is replied that while modernity is a property of those structures which go by the name of states, yet all history, or almost all, records the exercise of analogous functions.
Dewey discusses the historical continuity of state functions despite modern perceptions of the state as a recent development.
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