In order to get our bearings, we shall pull apart, one by one, the
principal elements in our heritage of civilization in the United
States, and examine them separately. This is a dangerous convenience,
however, and I must emphasize that these strands are tightly
intertwined and bound up. It is only in thought that one can take
them apart. No one has ever encountered man, save on the earth; no
one has ever seen the earth, save through the eyes of a man. There
is no logical priority in place, work, and people. In discussing the
community one either deals with it as a whole, or one’s discussion is
incomplete and faulty.