But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.
When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.
Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.