ABSTRACT
We all know from experience that a cOlnmunity of interests brings people together and creates among them bonds of friendship and affection. Illustrations abound from the absurd to the sublime: playmates, triflers, drinkers, students, scholars, colleagues of every kind, even criminals - in short, associates under any heading whatever. Without a community of interests there's no such thing as brotherly love or even friendship between one person and another. In my opinion this seems to be the most important bond among human beings.2 Without it friendship cannot exist and probably cannot last where it al ready exists, which is clearly because it intermingles itself in everything. But there' s no need to belabor the point. 11' s only necessary to take
care that we engage ourselves in a common cause, an achievement towards which a community of interests is properly directed. Nothing else will suffice. Nor will we settle for something less noble and significant. Why should we dedicate our talents and our powers to goals unworthy of us? If it be such an achievement, something noble, significant, worthwhile, then there can be no exertion which may be too great to expend on its accomplishment. It will be easy for us to say that we ought to undertake it with all the power and energy we have.
