Show english conception of state english writers think ot of the state as consisting of 0 and existing for individuals their fault Is to exaggerate the independence and self belt sufficiency ot of the individual citizen to be unduly optimistic as to the results ot of tree free unlimited competition between individuals and unduly distrustful of state action yet english political theory is ot of immense value in that it clings to the fact that state action like all other action has to be done by individual people who will not escape the fallings failings of 0 ordinary humanity by being in office and that it insists that the results of state action are to be meas measured tired in the lives ot of individual citizens and nowhere else it conceives conc elvea ot of the state as men working in common for or the common good existing as a common balth tor for the sake ol of the commonwealth and tor for else atlantic |