 A nation-state is a composite institutional organization that contains and shapes many socio-cultural productive systems which then generate certain commonalities. When socio-cultural systems transcending the scope of a nation come into contact with local productive systems, they also begin to assume commonalities distinctive of that nation. In the individual members of a nation-state these commonalities can produce a sense of solidarity. But Dilthey also warns of excesses in that regard when he notes that many Germans are “placing the highest value ... not in the serene world-view of the Greeks, not in the intellectually delimited consideration of purpose of the Romans, but in the raw exertion of power without any limit” (1910/SW.III, 196).