This can be achieved only if both aspects of the formula are attended to: openness and equality. These are the lodestars of the Western idea. Without openness, the West cannot thrive, for countries need the ideas, the competition, the new elites, the wide opportunities that openness brings if they are to keep on evolving. But without equality, the West cannot last, for it is in the inclusive nature of citizenship and a sense of the broad public interest that the secret of Western sustainability has lain, by offering hope of mobility and improvement to all social groups, and means to resolve
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