ABSTRACT
The communitarian principle says that the good of society as a whole presumptively has higher priority than the interests of the individual. Analyzing and evaluating it will require a fairly lengthy discussion and warrants a chapter by itself. Slater presents a catalog of social problems; theorizes that they are explained by the three frustrations; and explains the equally fundamental ways in which a “new culture,” a “community worthy of the name,” which would correct these problems, would differ from contemporary culture. “Americans love bigness,” Slater writes, “mostly because they feel so small. They feel small because they are unconnected, without a place.” Even the most superficial observation shows that Nature’s restricted form of propagation and increase is an almost rigid basic law of all the innumerable forms of expression of her vital urge. The first cultures arose in places where the Aryan, in his encounters with lower peoples, subjugated them and bent them to his will.
