Not at all! You can amass any number of perfect parts of a mechanism—or organism—but if they do not work together right the thing is no good.
And you can't learn to work together by trying to be perfect separately.
Can you?
We need collective aims, collective efforts, collective attainments.
Let us collectively resolve:
That we will stop wasting our soil and our forests and our labor!
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That we will stop poisoning and clogging our rivers and harbors.
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That we will stop building combustible houses.
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