In this and many similar instances the national interest and welfare was the end, and a greater or smaller amount of centralized government merely the necessary machinery.

The process of centralization is not, like the process of nationalization, an essentially formative and enlightening political transformation.

When a people are being nationalized, their political, economic, and social organization or policy is being cooerdinated with their actual needs and their moral and political ideals.

Governmental centralization is to be regarded as one of the many means which may or may not be taken in order to effect this purpose.

Like every other special aspect of the national organization, it must be justified by its fruits.