Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 246 of Samuel Gregg’s excellent hot-off-the-press book, The Civilization of Commerce:

One feature of commercial society is that it provides many people with more space for acting and making choices freely about what ends they decide to pursue – at least compared to previous social arrangements. But this liberty goes along with greater interdependence on others; thus, far from encouraging radical individualism, commercial civilization demonstrates that we are intrinsically social beings.