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ABSTRACT “A MAN without a purpose,” said Carlyle,“is like a ship without a rudder.” What is true of an individual is in this case true of a community: a people without a common purpose can

make no permanent progress. It must stagnate and ultimately disintegrate. In the last resort a free people can only be held together by either of two means: custom or community of purpose.

It is not difficult to see that anything—and not least the machinery of Government—which facilitates the coherence of free people, whether in a single State or in a world commonwealth, and

their co-operation towards the fulfilment of a common purpose, makes for the welfare and advancement of mankind. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of

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