NOTES 57 



which the bond in many cases seerns to be purely psychological ; 

 that is to say, it appears to depend upon the liking of the 

 individuals for one another's company. The tendency of in- 

 dividuals to over self-assertion is kept down by fighting. Even 

 in these rudimentary forms of society, love and fear come into 

 play, and enforce a greater or less renunciation of self-will. To 

 this extent the general cosmic process begins to be checked by a 

 rudimentary ethical process, which is, strictly speaking, part of 

 the former just as the ' governor ' in a steam-engine is part of 

 the mechanism of the engine. 



Note 20 (p. 35). 



" L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, 

 mais c'est un roseau pensant. II ne faut pas que 1'univers entier 

 s'arme pour 1'ecraser. Une vapeur, une goutte d'eau, suffit pour 

 le tuer. Mais quand 1'univers 1'ecraserait, 1'homme serait encore 

 plus noble que ce qui le tue, parce qu'il sait qu'il nieurt ; et 

 1'a vantage que 1'univers a sur lui, 1'univers n'en sait rien." 



Pensees de Pascal. Chap. II. x. 



Note 21 (p. 37). 



A great proportion of poetry is addressed by the young to the 

 young ; only the great masters of the art are capable of divining, 

 or think it worth while to enter into, the feelings of retrospective 

 age. The two great poets whom we have so lately lost, Tennyson 

 and Browning, have done this, each in his own inimitable way ; 

 the one in the ' Ulysses,' from which I have borrowed ; the other 

 in that wonderful fragment ' Childe Roland to the dark Tower 

 came.' 



