A man can be a member of different corporations. Our possibility of association is not exhausted by contributing to the production of one legal person, we may help to create many different legal persons, each with an entirely different set of liabilities. We see this clearly in the case of corporations, but it is what is taking place everywhere, this interlocking and overlapping of groups, and is I feel one of the neglected factors in the argument of those who are advocating occupational representation. Vocational representation would tend to crystallize us into definite permanent groups. I agree with the denunciation of the individual if you mean the man who seeks only his own advantage.
Life is a recognition of multitudinous multiplicity.
Politics must be shaped for that. Man is struggling for the freedom of his nature. The state cannot be composed of groups because no group nor any number of groups can contain the whole of me, and the ideal state demands the whole of me. My nature is not divisible into so many parts as a house into so many rooms. My group uses me and then the whole of me is still left to give to the whole.