Defence of Criminals 



Therefore the tongue may enter into a wider life 

 than that represented by the mere local sense of 

 taste, and experiences more pleasure often in the 

 drinking of a glass of water which the whole 

 body wants, than in the daintiest sweetmeat which 

 is for itself alone. 



Exactly so man in a healthy state does not act 

 for himself alone, practically cannot do so. Nor 

 does he talk cant about " serving his neighbors," 

 etc. But he simply acts for them as well as for 

 himself, because they are part and parcel of his 

 life — bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh ; and 

 in doing so he enters into a wider life, finds a more 

 perfect pleasure, and becomes more really a man 

 than ever before. Every man contains in him- 

 self the elements of all the rest of humanity. They 

 lie in the background ; but they are there. In 

 the front he has his own special faculty developed 

 — his individual facade, with its projects, plans 

 and purposes : but behind sleeps the Demos- 

 life with far vaster projects and purposes. Some 

 time or other to every man must come the con- 

 sciousness of this vaster life. 



The true Democracy, wherein this larger life 

 will rule society from within — obviating the need 

 of an external government — and in which all 

 characters and qualities will be recognised and 

 have their freedom, waits (a hidden but necessary 

 result of evolution) in the constitution of human 

 nature itself. In the pre-Civilisation period these 

 vexed questions of " morals " practically did not 

 exist ; simply because in that period the individual 



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