The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
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.
The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
