The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.Herbert Read
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.
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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.
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You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
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