If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
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