the continuation of yesterday's quote:
"The general greatness of the community, qualitatively as well as quantitatively, is the first condition for steady prosperity, buoyant, self-sustained, and commanding credit. The Greek philosopher who laid the foundation of all our fine thought ended his most marvellous dialogue with the reflection that the ideal state could never arrive till philosophers are kings. Today, in the age of democracy, the kings are plain citizens pursuing their various avocations. There can be no successful democratic society till general education conveys a philosophic outlook.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas (1933)
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