ABSTRACT
Today’s children will grow up to face intellectual and ethical prob lems of immense difficulty, deriving from multiple membership. Al ready today, each of us is dependent as never before on many human systems, some very large, some highly institutionalized, all making partly inconsistent demands on us for action or restraint as the neces sary price of membership. A strike, for example, once a simple battle between employees and their employer for a larger share of his profits, now involves strikers and union officials, other unions and their members, nonunionized workers, an industry and other industries, several departments of state, all political parties and the public at large; and every individual, concerned always in more than one capacity, needs to understand relations of great complexity and to make judg ments of great difficulty. The resultant conflicts, though sometimes muted, are often fiercer and always different because the contestants, however bitterly divided, are involved in each other’s fate.
