The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions instincts and passions intelligence and reason.
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline...
I wasn't privy to all of the intelligence that was coming in about Guatemala...
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am more so than by Eliot. Actually I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.