Abstract
moral institutions, the Roman legal structure and the Christian Church, the future will bring forth a new sphere of morality which will both purge and perfect these earlier forms of ethical life. Two visions, one concerning the future of the state and the other concerning the future of mankind, conclude Cieszkowski's speculations and the Prolegomena zur Historiosophie: The state will lose its abstract and separate character and will become the bond between mankind and the concrete family of people. The natural state of people will pass into a social state, and the law of the people [V6lkerrecht] will perfect itself ever more fully into a moral code of the people [Vi5lkermoral] and a morality of the people [V8lkersittlicheit]. Finally, mankind itself, which even now might not yet consider itself a community, will then gather together into a real and living organism of humanity, which might well be called, in its highest sense, a church.58 No one among the Young Hegelians could have expressed the millenial expectations of that early post-Hegelian world better than Cieszkowski. Villanova University
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