Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good … it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.

— William Ernest Hocking Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights (1926)

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