Full Idea
Political effort in all its highest forms is the expression of a belief in the reality of the social spirit as the deeper element in the individual.
Gist of Idea
The highest political efforts express our deeper social spirit
Source
report of T.H. Green (Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation [1882]) by John H. Muirhead - The Service of the State I
Book Reference
Muirhead,John H.: 'The Service of the State: T.H. Green' [John Murray 2021], p.4
A Reaction
Although Green is rather literally spiritual, if we express it as a central aspect of human nature, this idea strikes me as correct. Writing in 2021, I am totally bewildered by the entire absence of any 'higher' forms of political expression.