What vast, undreamed of achievement might await man would he but devote his entire interest to promoting the commonweal of a universal human brotherhood.
Instead, they can be considered to be commonweal organisations, much like fire services: while they are responsible to government in the first instance they serve society as a whole.
In a nation of small, coastal towns populated mostly by farmers -- relative to later years, homogenous in ethnic and religious background -- the idea of single commonweal made sense.
Dignity had to be fought for politically, above all by weakening market forces and strengthening the hand of the commonweal against private profits, money and selfishness.
