There is a sense, too, of a deeper affinity, wrought by aspects of common culture and mutual regard for America.
Beyond that, we can model for each other what a healthy commonweal requires: respect for difference; reliance on fact instead of opinion; concern for the common good; regard for open debate and reasoned disagreement; acknowledgment of our shared humanity.
What we had in common was a deep regard for and an abiding fascination with places and what makes them tick.
The values of common sense, goodwill, and regard for the individual, on the other hand, can still be cultivated, and these underlie Forster's later pleas for more liberal attitudes.
Of course that's only a minor waste of money compared to the strobe lights (for the few deaf students in school) placed in every classroom that I've written about before, but it springs from a similar lack of common sense and low regard for people's intelligence.
A proposal for the restriction of free international trade can be described as autarkic if it appeals to those half-submerged feelings that the citizens of the nation share a common welfare and common interests, whereas foreigners have no regard for such welfare and interests and might even be actively opposed to them.
What about the rest of the exhibit, with its criticisms of the A.N.C.'s alleged corruption and lack of regard for the common people?
The deification of the free market cannot coexist with a robust concern for the common good and a dignified regard for what it means to be human.
They seem to fear that common sense and a humane regard for the well-being of farm animals will spread to their own industries.
Strongly influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's regard for the common people, Pestalozzi devoted himself to bettering the lot of the poor.
And last week, the former player Ray Small told the university's student newspaper, The Lantern, that memorabilia sales by players were common and few had any regard for N.C.A.A. regulations forbidding them.
