Excerpt from The Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy: Three Lectures All well-organized unions inculcate sub mission to the majority rule, obedience to officers elected for short terms, and supreme loyalty to the union in all cases of conflict of loyalties. These are collective doctrines, taught for the purpose of securing common action on the part of large bodies of men who believe themselves to have a common interest as a class, or group, or set, to promote which they are willing to forego a large part of their liberty as individuals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.