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teacher. It is a self-regulating system, based on a com- 

 bination of intellectual compulsion and the dominion 

 of approved leadership. It is precisely the same kind 

 of a system that regulates the conduct of every highly 

 organized animal, or for that matter of every organ- 

 ized being. That is, it is a combination of free, or 

 spontaneous, or voluntary actions in response to invi- 

 tations to profit; and of self-inhibition in response to 

 warnings of danger, or of destruction. The middle 

 class is the clearing house where these social checks 

 and drafts are balanced against one another, and the 

 profits and losses, as nearly as may be, rightly dis- 

 tributed. 



When it becomes perfectly clear that special 

 knowledge, skill, talent, or genius, are social proper- 

 ties held in common, and that they are saving and cre- 

 ative social agencies, freely open to common uses, they 

 then cease to be a source of disrupting envy, become 

 uniting bonds, and a source of pride in their posses- 

 sion. Heavy sacrifices will then be made, eagerly and 

 voluntarily, to preserve and augment these agencies. 

 For then the scholar, or the mental leader, is clearly 

 but an instrument of the other man. Each is then 

 guide and follower in one, and each a source of saving 

 power to the other. 



Thus man, in his own selfish interests, will vol- 

 untarily submit to dictation and control so long as it 

 is manifest that his leaders are raised to leadership by 

 himself, as servants to himself. Both, then, are one, 

 in will and purpose; the identity of the people is then 

 merged with that of their officers and servants, and 

 theirs with that of their creators. 



This community of will, which can spring only 



