THE ONLY THINGS THAT MELT IN THIS POT, ARE RULE OF LAW, HIGH TRUST, THE COMMONS, AND THE VOLUNTARISM OF THE CIVIC SOCIETY

—-“For along with strange people, strange doctrines must come in; and novel doctrines bring novel decisions, from which there must arise many feelings and resolutions which destroy the harmony of the existing political order. Therefore he thought it more necessary to keep bad manners and customs from invading and filling the city than it was to keep out infectious diseases.”—Plutarch

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