It is an orchestra, win which each member plays their part, often improvising, but with an overall harmonizing result. In relatively impersonal city life, a person may work with one group, study with another, dwell with still another, yet deeply share life with none. In true community many activities are shared with the same people. The unified living results in deeper social roots and more unified personalities. A person is not a normal organism by themselves, but only in relationship with others.
People live best in integrated groups of limited size.
They crave community life, not simply social life. The impulse to create and participate in community life is so deep seated and so strong that where it finds no opportunity for expression, grave injury to personality may follow. The greatest of all social aims is that of developing the qualities of character and intelligence which will lead each person of their own volition to play that part which is best for society as a whole. Such an attitude would vastly simplify the process of social adjustment. The roots of culture are not its fine arts, technology, and political institutions.