Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure 



without thought of wages or reward ; and the reward 

 will come to him as inevitably and naturally as in 

 the human body the blood flows to the member 

 which is exerting itself. All the endless burden 

 of the adjustments of labour and wages, of the war 

 of duty and distaste, of want and weariness, will 

 be thrown aside — all the huge waste of work 

 done against the grain will be avoided ; out of 

 the endless variety of human nature will spring a 

 perfectly natural and infinite variety of occupations, 

 all mutually contributive ; Society at last will be 

 free and the human being after long ages will 

 have attained to deliverance. 



This is the Communism which Civilisation has 

 always /z<^/i?(^, as it hated Christ. Yet it is inevitable ; 

 for the cosmical man, the instinctive elemental 

 man accepting and crowning nature, necessarily 

 fulfils the universal law of nature. As to External 

 Government and Law, they will disappear ; for 

 they are only the travesties and transitory substitutes 

 of Inward Government and Order. Society in its 

 final state is neither a Monarchy, nor an Aristocracy 

 nor a Democracy, nor an Anarchy, and yet in another 

 sense it is all of these. It is an Anarchy because 

 there is no outward rule, but only an inward and 

 invisible spirit of life ; it is a Democracy because 

 it is the rule of the Mass-man, or Demos, in each 

 unit man ; it is an Aristocracy because there are 

 degrees and ranks of such inv/ard power in all 

 men ; and it is a Monarchy because all these ranks 

 and powers merge in a perfect unity and central 

 control at last. And so it appears that the outer 



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