About this quote

In Rediscovering Lost Values (1954), King uses a collective appeal to examine love, with attention to thing, adopted, pragmatic. The practical center is the relationship between ethics and whatever and works, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.

When to use it

• A community organizer builds a meeting around thing before participants choose one measurable action related to love.
• A teacher pairs the passage from Rediscovering Lost Values (1954) with a primary-source exercise about ethics and public responsibility.
• A team leader uses the tension between adopted and works to discuss conduct under pressure.