Att Trade In Quotes

Human emotions are attached to concrete objects, and the emotions ofjustice in particu- lar are still very much connected with the visible needs of the group to which each person belongs-the needs of the trade or profession, of the clan or the village, the town or the country to which each belongs. Only a mental reconstruction of the overall order of the Great Society enables us to comprehend that the deliberate aim at concrete common purposes, which to most people still appears as more meritorious and superior to blind obedience to abstract rules, would destroy that larger order in which all human beings count alike.