To
understand man we must look beyond the individual man and his actions, or
interests and view him in combination with his fellows. It is in society that
man first feels what he is, first become what he can be. In society and
altogether new set of spiritual activities are evolved in him, and the old
immeasurable quickened and strengthened. Society is the general element in
which his nature first lives and grows.
“Already
says a deep thinker. My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in strength and
sureness the moment a second mind has adopted it such even in its simplest
form, is association; so wondrous the communion of soul with soul as directed
to the mere act of knowing! In other and higher acts, the wonder is still more
manifest. It is in society, we might almost say, that morality beings. The
duties of man to himself, to what is highest in him make but the first Table of
the Law. To this is now added the second, with the duties of man to his
neighbor, which also the significance of the first now assumes its true
importance.
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