Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to governments founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment and a sufficient belief in the unity of things, to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints... or that the private citizen might be reasonable and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.

This is the value of the Communities; not what they have done, but the revolution which they indicate as on the way.

In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.