There was this lingering suspicion, or perhaps residual cultural memory, that without social control greater individual freedom would entail the freedom of individuals to harm themselves. That social control, it was now assumed, could no longer be entrusted to the state. This gave greater urgency to the need to embrace civil society. Civil society was supposed to be outside the state but also something that might replace it; it was supposed to emerge organically, but also had to be stimulated; it was supposed to bring harmony while acknowledging that some differences could never be resolved.
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