ABSTRACT
The social group might be the primitive community, the feudal society, the church with its power over both mind and body, or the empire. While the community is developing a sense of mutual responsibility, and while it is working out common plans, there should be constant endeavor to save individual freedom and initiative. Coercion into community participation—beyond the sheer necessities of public health and safety, and the elimination of objectionable elements such as nuisances or immoral or anti-social influences—should not be used. The problem of the community, as of all society, is to save and to enlarge the priceless values of freedom, while yet developing the qualities of mutual regard, mutual help, mutual responsibility, and common effort for common ends. The community is the natural home of democracy, and it can be the home of tolerance and freedom.
