Literary notes about community (AI summary)
Literature employs the term "community" to evoke a wide range of associations from the intimate bonds of shared sentiment to the organized structures of state and society. Often, it is used to illustrate how individuals are drawn together by a common pursuit or interest, as when a collective passion compels a group to converge upon a public stage ([1],[2]). In other works, community is portrayed as a regulated body wherein social contracts, political power, and communal obligations define relationships and authority ([3],[4],[5]). Some writers highlight its emotional depth by depicting the rupture or preservation of personal identity through breaches of trust ([6],[7]), while others extend the concept to encompass natural groupings, such as plant communities whose individual elements collectively form a unified whole ([8],[9]). This varied usage underscores community as a multifaceted idea that is both a social organism and a vital element in the expression of human identity and collective responsibility.
- When the yet untutored love of the pleasures of the mind begins to affect a class of the community, it instantly draws them to the stage.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - When the bulk of the community is engrossed by private concerns, the smallest parties need not despair of getting the upper hand in public affairs.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville - This, however, already presupposes a community regulated by agreement—the State.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer - It was a community in a vocational, personal, religious, political sense and in many other respects.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - To betray a secret is to tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own personality.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - I only recognize in your frankness that perfect community of thought and sentiment which should exist between original natures.”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales by Bret Harte - The units are the many individual plants that occur in every community, whether this be a beech forest, a meadow, or a heath.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - The ecological analysis of a plant-community leads to the recognition of the growth-forms composing it as its ultimate units.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
