The pluralistic theory, thus, finds its practical explanation in the be- wildering variety of associations and groups which existio promote the social industrial, political and other varied interests of man. All these groups, as Laski says, determine, largely, his choice of friends, of opportunities, of a"quite career. '44 plan his activities and provide him with opportunities for the They expression of his desires. "They seek to give him mastery of the event, to enable him in concert with like-minded men, to control the environment to a destiny he wants Society, in fine, far from consisting of a mass of isolated individuals, actually a web of associations and groups that link men and is women with one another. The old concept that society is an association of individuals in a common life does not hold good any longer. It is a"nation of Joiners." Pluralism is, thus, a natural accompaniment of the''atomistic" view of society and human freedom. To put it in the words of Ernest Barker, the tate is more an association of individuals, already united in various groups for a further and more embracing common purpose. 46 It means that the State is only one among many other forms of human associations, and, as compared with other associations, it has no more superior claims to the individual's