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A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will—in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains—nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

William Ernest Hocking

Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good … it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.

William Ernest Hocking

Principle II : The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions : they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for that reason ignore conditions which exist.

William Ernest Hocking

Principle III : Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

William Ernest Hocking