Social Order

No inherited order is final and every question stays open. Doubt comes before faith, truth is pursued for its own sake, and each person is met as an equal. They loosen what a society takes for granted and keep its ideas from hardening.

The common order is something to be set right, by plan and by plain truth. Standards are high, work is finished properly, and power is judged by whether it protects the individual. Societies move toward their next, fairer arrangement through them.

The community of one's own matters now, and the future can take care of itself. Belonging rests on kinship and likeness more than on shared theory. They hold a society to its living present and to the people already in it.

The established system is the frame of a life. Order is planned, ranks are clear, information flows by role and each procedure leads to the next. Through them the structures of a state outlast any one generation.