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ociety in all developed countries has become pluralist and is beconiing niorc pluralist day by day. It is splintering into a iiiyriad of institutions e,ic.h iiiorc o r S less autonomous, each requiring its o w n leadership in nianagrment, each h . 1 ~ing its own specific task. This is not the first pluralist society in history. Llut all carlicr pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care o f tlic c o i ~i i ~~o i i good. They .ibounded in ~~iiri~iiiiiiitics but could not sustain n~rrrrrrrtrrity, let alone create it. If o u r iiiodern pluralist society is to escape the s u m k t e , the leaders of (111 institutions Lvill have t o Icarii to be /twdcrs b e p v d fhc rc~d/s. They will have t o Iearn that it is not enough for thcm to lead their own institutions-tIioiiRli that is the first rcquircnient. They \vill ,ilso 1i.n~ to learn to become leaders in the comiiiunity. In fiict thcy will have to learn to c-reate community. This is going way b c y n d \vhat \ve h a w becn discussing .IS zoiili/ rcspirrsibility. Social responsibility is usudly dc.fincii ;is doing I I O litiriii t o othcrs in thc pursuit o f one's own interest o r of one's own task. The IIC\V pluralisiii rcquircc \licit niight be called [iik rcy~oIrsihility: giving to the comiiiunity in the pursuit of one's onm interest o r of ow's owii task. There is no preccdent in history for such civic responsibility among institutional Ic.idcrs. But there are. fortunately, s i p s thiit the leaders of o u r iiistitutions in .ill sector< .ire beginning to wake u p to the nced to becoiiie Ie&r\ b c y n d the \valls. A Brief View Back h e last pluralist society in the West existed during the early a n d high Midtilt. T Ages. T h e Roniari Enipirc tried, quite successfully, to create a unitary st;ite in which ILornan law and the ILonian legions created political iiniformity throughout