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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/CWSA/The Human Cycle/The Ideal Solution.htm
Chapter XVIII
The Ideal Solution —
A Free Grouping of Mankind
THESE principles founded on the essential and constant tendencies of Nature in the development of human life
ought clearly to be the governing ideas in any intelligent attempt at the unification of the human race. And it might so
be done if that unification could be realised after the manner of a Lycurgan constitution or by the law of an ideal Manu, the
perfect sage and king. Attempted, as it will be, in very different fashion according to the desires, passions and interests of great
masses of men and guided by no better light than the halfenlightened reason of the world'
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Chapter II
The Age of Individualism
and Reason
AN INDIVIDUALISTIC age of human society comes as a result of the corruption and failure of the conventional,
as a revolt against the reign of the petrified typal figure. Before it can be born it is necessary that the old truths shall
have been lost in the soul and practice of the race and that even the conventions which ape and replace them shall have become
devoid of real sense and intelligence; stripped of all practical justification, they exist only mechanically by fixed idea, by the
force of custom, by attachment to the form. It is then that men in spite of the natural conservatism of the soc