These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and minds, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the other hand, though it may divert us from the normal routine of our existence, causes us in some way or other to become conscious of that existence.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.