Excerpt from The New Horizon of State and Church
What sort of nation constitutes today a desirable member of the human family? Can we divide governments into good and bad? What is goodness in terms of nationality?
In order to make answer we must ask another question: What is a good man? What sort of single citizen is desirable? If, as Plato said, virtue in the state is simply individual virtue "writ large," then our ideal of national greatness and worth must change from century to century as our standards of individual character change.
In the mediaeval age the good man was the isolated man.
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