“The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.”
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Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational.
