The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

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

Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

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.