The One and The Many Quotes

“For Dewey, the Great Community was the basic fact of history. The individual and the soul were invalid concepts, man was truly man, not as an individual, but as after Aristotle, in society and supremely in the State. Thus, for Dewey, true education mean not the development of the individual in terms of learning, but his socialization.

Progressive education... educates the individual in terms of particular facts of the universe without reference to God, truth, or morality.”
― R.J. Rushdoony, The One and The Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy

“Mysticism is always incapable of dealing with the problems of culture because it is a denial of their validity.”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, The One and The Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy

“The question which haunts the dialectical culture is this: how to have unity without totally undifferentiated and meaningless oneness? If all things are basically one, the differences are meaningless, divisions false, and definitions are sophistications, in that the tyranny, or destiny, of oneness is the truth of all being. But, if all things are basically many, and if plurality is ultimate, then the world dissolves into unrelated particulars and becomes, as some thinkers insist, not a universe but a multiverse, and every atom is in a sense its own law and being. The first leads to the breakdown of differences and the liberty of atomistic individualism and particularity; the second is the breakdown of fundamental law into nihilism and the retreat of men and their arts into isolated and private universes”
― Rousas John Rushdoony, The One and The Many: Studies in the Philosophy of Order and Ultimacy