The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act--the process of reason--must be performed by each man alone. We can divide a meal among many men, but we cannot digest it in a collective stomach. No man can use his lungs to breathe for another man and no man can use his brain to think for another. All the functions of body and spirit are private. They cannot be shared or transferred. Man exists as an individual.

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