The individual, unlike the household and the community, always has two ways to turn: she or he may turn either toward the household and the community, to receive membership and to give service, or toward the relatively unconditional life of the public, in which one is free to pursue self-realization, self-aggrandizement, self-interest, self-fulfillment, self-enrichment, self-promotion, and so on. The problem is that—unlike a married couple, a household, or a community—one individual represents no fecundity, no continuity, and no harmony. The individual life implies no standard of behavior or
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