tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721035008988441518.post4228317886943242780..comments2023-08-27T12:42:29.510-03:00Comments on Innovation Patterns: 07-21-2013 | Sunday SermonJustin Bolandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06617774048323657315noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5721035008988441518.post-64438173356048296382013-07-22T15:52:53.773-03:002013-07-22T15:52:53.773-03:00"Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last..."Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. <br /><br />I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. <br /><br />A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen."#DAUGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09844287258407353377noreply@blogger.com