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Chapter XI
The Small Free Unit and the Larger
Concentrated Unity
IF WE consider the possibilities of a unification of the human race
on political, administrative and economic lines, we see that a
certain sort of unity or first step towards it appears not only to
be possible, but to be more or less urgently demanded by an
underlying spirit and sense of need in the race. This spirit has
been created largely by increased mutual knowledge and close
communication, partly by the development of wider and freer
intellectual ideals and emotional sympathies in the progressive mind
of the race. The sense of need is
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Chapter V
Nation and Empire: Real
and Political Unities
THE PROBLEM of the unification of mankind resolves itself into two distinct difficulties. There is the doubt
whether the collective egoisms already created in the natural evolution of humanity can at this time be sufficiently
modified or abolished and whether even an external unity in some effective form can be securely established. And there is
the doubt whether, even if any such external unity can be established, it will not be at the price of crushing both the free
life of the individual and the free play of the various collective units already created in which there is a
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Chapter XXVIII
Diversity in Oneness
IT IS essential to keep constantly in view the fundamental powers and realities of life if we are not to be betrayed by
the arbitrary rule of the logical reason and its attachment to
the rigorous and limiting idea into experiments which, however convenient in practice and however captivating to a unitarian
and symmetrical thought, may well destroy the vigour and impoverish the roots of life. For that which is perfect and satisfying
to the system of the logical reason, may yet ignore the truth of life and the living needs of the race. Unity is an idea which is not at
all arbitrary or unreal; for unity
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Chapter II
The Imperfection of Past Aggregates
THE WHOLE process of Nature depends on
a balancing and a constant tendency to harmony between two poles of
life, the individual whom the whole or aggregate nourishes and the
whole or aggregate which the individual helps to constitute. Human
life forms no exception to the rule. Therefore the perfection of
human life must involve the elaboration of an as yet unaccomplished
harmony between these two poles of our existence, the individual and
the social aggregate. The perfect society will be that which most
entirely favours the perfection of the individual; the perfection of
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Chapter XI
The Reason as Governor of Life
REASON using the intelligent will for the ordering of the inner and the outer life is undoubtedly the highest developed faculty of man at his present point of evolution; it is
the sovereign, because the governing and self-governing faculty in the complexities of our human existence. Man is distinguished
from other terrestrial creatures by his capacity for seeking after a rule of life, a rule of his being and his works, a principle of order
and self-development, which is not the first instinctive, original, mechanically self-operative rule of his natural existence. The
principle he looks to is neith
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Self-Determination
A NEW phrase has recently been cast out from the bloodstained yeast of war into the shifty language of politics,
— that strange language full of Maya and falsities, of self-illusion and deliberate delusion of others, which almost
immediately turns all true and vivid phrases into a jargon, so that men may fight in a cloud of words without any clear sense
of the thing they are battling for, — it is the luminous description of liberty as the just power, the freely exercised right of
self-determination. The word is in itself a happy discovery, a thought-sign of real usefulness. For it helps to make definite and
manageable what was apt ti
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Chapter IV
The Discovery of the Nation-Soul
THE PRIMAL law and purpose of the individual life is to seek its own self-development. Consciously or half
consciously or with an obscure unconscious groping it
strives always and rightly strives at self-formulation, — to find itself, to discover within itself the law and power of its own being
and to fulfil it. This aim in it is fundamental, right, inevitable because, even after all qualifications have been made and caveats
entered, the individual is not merely the ephemeral physical creature, a form of mind and body that aggregates and dissolves, but
a being, a living power of the eternal Truth, a
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Chapter III
The Group and the Individual
IT IS a constant method of Nature, when
she has two elements of a harmony to reconcile, to proceed at first
by a long continued balancing in which she sometimes seems to lean
entirely on one side, sometimes entirely to the other, at others to
correct both excesses by a more or less successful temporary
adjustment and moderating compromise. The two elements appear then
as opponents necessary to each other who therefore labour to arrive
at some conclusion of their strife. But as each has its egoism and
that innate tendency of all things which drives them not only
towards sel
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Chapter XIII
The Formation of the Nation-Unit — The Three
Stages
THE THREE stages of development which have marked the mediaeval and
modern evolution of the nation-type may be regarded as the natural
process where a new form of unity has to be created out of complex
conditions and heterogeneous materials by an external rather than an
internal process. The external method tries always to mould the
psychological condition of men into changed forms and habits under
the pressure of circumstances and institutions rather than by the
direct creation of a new psychological condition which would, on the
contrary, d
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Chapter XX
The Drive towards
Economic Centralisation
THE OBJECTIVE organisation of a national unity is not yet complete when it has arrived at the possession of a
single central authority and the unity and uniformity of its political, military and strictly administrative functions. There
is another side of its organic life, the legislative and its corollary, the judicial function, which is equally important; the exercise of
legislative power becomes eventually indeed, although it was not always, the characteristic sign of the sovereign. Logically, one
would suppose that the conscious and organised determination of its own rules