如果我们仅从孤立的言论出发,那理解整个社会犹如天方夜谭,甚至是社会的特性也看不清摸不透。我们也理解不了社会上(或国家中)那些崇高的,高贵的,独立的事物,抑或那些属于某一社会的精神特质。
If we start from mere isolated statements it is quite impossible
to make comprehensible any sort of interest in the whole, any sort
of immanence of the whole within the parts; any elevation,
nobility, and independence displayed by the whole as, for example,
by the State, or any kind of spiritual character which we may
ascribe to the whole.