Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1867

Marginal pencil notation on page 176 of William Ernest Hocking, The Coming World Civilization (New York: Harper & Bros., 1956)

Original is missing.

/Hocking: “I cannot join in the dream either of Freud or of Marcuse that a nonrepressive social order — if that means a nondisciplinary order — is either achievable or desirable.”/

Contractually interfunctioning men constitute a non-coercive, functioning society. If any practice violence he is alien and outlaw. He must be mastered or banished (like any mere animal) until he resume membership.