The New Morality 



means a quick response of each unit to the needs 

 of the other units, and much the same in the body 

 politic as health means in the physical body — 

 must underlie and be the basis of the societies 

 of the future. It will mean the liberation of 

 a thousand and one instincts, desires and capa- 

 cities which since our childhood's days have 

 lain buried within us, concealed and ignored because 

 we have thought them wrong or unworthy, when 

 really all they have wanted has been recognition 

 and the opportunity to become healthy by 

 recognition — by the process in fact of balancing 

 against each other, and against opposing and com- 

 plementary elements, and so finding their places 

 in the Whole. On this new Morality of accept- 

 ance and recognition and wide-reaching redemp- 

 tion, it will be possible, as I have already said, to 

 graft not only a stronger expression of indivi- 

 duality all round, but also a higher and more varied 

 and more gracious life of personal affection — 

 which now alas ! lies like a thing wounded and 

 half dead. Its establishment will, I take it, mean 

 the oncoming of a society which will liberate 

 personal affection and love — will liberate forces 

 hitherto artificially crippled because their libera- 

 tion would tear our current morality of formulae 

 to mere rags and tatters. It means, I take it, 

 the oncoming of a society whose main motive will 

 no longer be the struggle for Bread (since that is 

 ruled out by the enormous growth of our wealth- 

 producing powers), but the desire for the satisfac- 

 tion of the Heart — thus preparing no doubt new 



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