The Bottom Up Approach
Just as the addition of however many zeros will never make a unit, so the value of a community depends on the spiritual moral stature of the individuals composing it. For this reason one cannot expect from the community at any effect that would outweigh the suggestive the environment— that is, a real and fundamental change in individuals, whether for good or for bad. Such changes can come only from the personal encounter between man and man, but not from communistic or Christian baptism en mass, which should not touch the inner man. How superficial the effect of communal propaganda actually is can be seen from recent events in Eastern Europe {written in 1957}. The communal ideal reckons without its host, overlooking the individual human being, who in the end will assert his claims.