For ideas belong to human beings who have bodies, and there is no separation between the structures and processes of the part of the body that entertains the ideas and the part that performs acts.
This quote emphasizes the connection between human ideas and physical actions, rejecting the separation of mind and body.
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In other words, every officer of the public, whether he represents it as a voter or as a stated official, has a dual capacity.
For the older symbols of ideal life still engage thought and command loyalty.
The easiest way out was to go back to the naked individual, to sweep away all associations as foreign to his nature and rights save as they proceeded from his own voluntary choice, and guaranteed his own private ends.
There is therefore no necessary connection between the private character of an act and its non-social or anti-social character.