Transcriber’s Note
Text on the original cover was added by the Transcriber and placed in the Public Domain.

THE STATE

ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT VIEWED SOCIOLOGICALLY

By FRANZ OPPENHEIMER, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science in the University of Frankfort-on-Main

Authorized Translation
By JOHN M. GITTERMAN, Ph.D., LL.B.
(Of the New York County Bar)

New York
VANGUARD PRESS


Copyright, 1914
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Copyright, 1922
B. W. Huebsch, Inc.

VANGUARD PRINTINGS
First—August, 1926
Second—February, 1928