Civilisation : Its Cause and Cure 



was one with his tribe and moved (unconsciously) 

 by the larger life of his tribe. And in the post- 

 Civilisation period, when the true Democracy is 

 realised, they will not exist, because then the man 

 will know himself a part of humanity at large, 

 and will be consciously moved by forces belonging 

 to these vaster regions of his being. The moral 

 codes and questionings belong to Civilisation, 

 they are part of the forward effort, the struggle, 

 the suffering, and the temporary alienation from 

 true life, which that term implies. 1 



1 For further on the same subject see the last chapter, infra, 

 on " The New Morality." 



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