162 Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path
individual life is just as understandable as the fact that
butting, which exists because of the bull’s horns, reacts
upon the further development of the horns which would
otherwise become stunted with prolonged disuse. In the
same way, individuals would become stunted if they led
isolated existences outside human community. It is pre-
cisely for this that the social order is formed, so that it can
then react favorably on the individual.