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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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It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
If it ceases to be of the spirit of the people, then the yellow parchment whereon it is inscribed can avail nothing.
That vision still remains as an ideal with the American people and still leads them to ever-higher achievements, for in all the mad changes of a frenzied hour, they have not yet lost faith in or love for the Constitution of the Fathers!
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