Incision and Separation

Mankind was created an organism. It is not like the angels, a mere numberless throng, though with a certain likeness and order among them. It is a race, made of one blood and created in a common root, the first man Adam. From this common root the entire race develops. There is, therefore, a living unity, a community of life, a unity in origin, a oneness of physical and psychological makeup, and also a belonging together. No individual human being can live and have being in complete isola­tion...