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We are now beginning to see--slowly, but surely--that a faculty of organization which, as such, submerged the spirit of individualism, is not an unmixed good.
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Beck reflects on the complex relationship between organization and individualism in society.
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Assuredly, the man of to-day, with the rich heritage of countless ages, can do no less.
Other nations may not take it so literally, but with our life-long adherence to a written Constitution as a solemn contractual obligation, we do.
Man has danced upon the verge of a social abyss, and, as previously suggested, the dancing has, both in form and in accompanying music, lost its former grace and reverted to the primitive forms of crude vulgarity.
The American Constitution has been the classic model for the federated State.
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