but if we do not start with a definition…

Page 187, but if we do not start with a definition of democracy, which makes it equivalent to the destruction of society, it may not be found so easy to drive all these evil consequences from it. If we start from the conception of a social organism, the prima fasciate case stands quite Otherwise. For a while in a mass, in a numerical aggregate, the ultimate reality is an individual unit, and the isolated atoms are the facts of the case, in an organism. Matt is essentially social being. Society, as a real hole is the normal order, and the mass as an aggregate of isolated units is the fiction. If this be the case, and if democracy be a form of society, it not only does have, but must have, a common will. For it is this unity of Will, which makes it an Oregon organism . Estate represents men so far as they have become organically related to one another, or our possessed of unity of purpose, and in interest. But as mains, a priority definition of democracy, based upon an exploded theory of society, does not suffice to condemn democracy, neither will a conception of it, will, which rests upon an accepted theory. Suffice to justify it .

— from The Flight Plan (Purpose/Wisdom/Risk)

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