The individual, dealing with the individual is necessarily at the bottom of all true social progress
The individual, dealing with the individual is necessarily at the bottom of all true social progress. There can’t be anything worthy the name without it. The truth will at once be recognised by all that the good of the whole depends upon the good of each, and the good of each makes the good of the whole. Attend, then, to the individual, and the whole will take care of itself.
— What All The World’s A-Seeking, Ralph Waldo Trine