PUBLIC SPIRIT 



Aristotle, as Aristotle anticipates modern 

 sociology. 



The New Testament utters the same 

 thought when it says that the powers that be 

 are ordained of God, not some special type 

 of civil rule republic, aristocracy, or mon- 

 archy but the essential powers of govern- 

 ment which any of these forms of polity 

 must use in order to do its work. 



Kindred is the error of supposing that 

 the social organism exists simply for the 

 sake of the individual. Society is in part 

 an end in itself. Man is greater and more 

 glorious than any man. The totality of 

 human relations, as a totality, is a splendid 

 product, worthy of Almighty effort. Far 

 from being accidental, mere scaffolding or 

 instrumentality, it is the innermost, essential 

 part of creation, destined to stand forever. 



The gospel for the day, then, is this 

 that we need a larger, heartier recognition 

 of men's dependence upon one another, and 

 of the moral and religious duties springing 

 out of this close relationship. We are 

 members one of another, and should so re- 



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