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and in doing so it embodies the central ideals
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of the social morality of the time as it was conceived
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by people like Dudley: harmony, duty, order.
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Now clearly this ideal was communitarian.
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Dudley was very preoccupied with the commonwealth
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as an association of interdependent parts, a community.
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But equally clearly it was not egalitarian.
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The component groups might be interdependent
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but they were emphatically not equal.
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Each group was expected to contribute
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"in its degree" as Dudley put it;
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"In its degree," according to its place.