Big states,according to Trietschke are more adapted than small one to promote the development of intellectual culture The resources which big state possesses the talent it can command and the greater genius it can produce immensely help the cultural advancement of a nation and consequently its clailigntion Lord Acton a great admirer of big States while summing up the defects of small states says that they ''isolate and shut off the inhabitants to narrow the horizon of their views and to dwarf in some degre the proportion of their ideas. Public opinion cannot maintain its liberty are purity in small dimensions and the currents that come form large community sweep oves a contracted territory...These States like the minuter community of the Middle Ages serve a purpose,by constituting partitions and securitia of self-government in the larger States but they are impediments to the progres of society which depends on the mixture of races under the same government