All wars are accordingly so many attempts (not in the intention of man, but in the intention of Nature) to establish new relations among states, and through the destruction or at least the dismemberment of all of them to create new political bodies, which, again, either internally or externally, cannot maintain themselves and which must thus suffer like revolutions; until finally, through the best possible civic constitution and common agreement and legislation in external affairs, a state is created which, like a civic commonwealth, can maintain itself automatically.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "All wars are accordingly so many attempts (not in the intention of man, but in the intention of Nature) to establish new relations among states, and through the destruction or at least the dismemberment of all of them to create new political bodies, which, again, either internally or externally, cannot maintain themselves and which must thus suffer like revolutions; until finally, through the best possible civic constitution and common agreement and legislation in external affairs, a state is created which, like a civic commonwealth, can maintain itself automatically." in the context of "Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View" (1784) as translated in On History (1963) by Lewis White Beck; also translated as Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, Seventh Thesis" to mean that wisdom is timeless.