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When the ground surface is even and clear, even a weak man can tread on it properly and quickly. Contrary to this, if the surface is uneven, thorny or stony, even a robust person shall have to face immense difficulties in walking on it. If the individual's capacity is harmonized with the social development, then an indivinual's capacity also enhances many fold.
Relations of an Individual and Society :
As a matter of fact society is nothing independent of individual's. Individual on assembling constitute a society,hence where is the existence of a society ? But all of us might be experiencing that though an individual's force is evidently seen, yet the collective force is superior, which controls an individual's potency.An individual establishes an organization and frames its rules and regulations with the provision of punishment in case the rules are violated. In a way he is the progenitor of that organization but can he escape the punishment by breaking the rules ? This force is called social authority to which an individual voluntarily surrenders. This is also the procedure in the constitutions of various National Governments.
When individual deviates from these healthy rules and becomes unrestrained-being puffed up with power, takes recourse to immorality, then this very societary force controls on his self-willed activities. Every individual might be experiencing that many times he having determined to indulge in profligacy, shrinks back by the thought what people will speak of him. These people may either belong to his family, neighbourhood, street, village, city, country or foreign country. Assume them to be a society.
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