132 PERSONALITY 



out his duty in whatever form it may present 

 itself. The picture of men or nations as mere 

 individuals blindly struggling against one 

 another, or each working only in his own 

 individual interest, is simply another of the 

 illusions of imperfect logic, or of what comes 

 to the same thing, one-sided and imperfect 

 observation. 



Another form of this picture is that of 

 personal life as of a mere isolated individual, 

 buffeted about, and perhaps now suffering or 

 dying, in a world that seems wholly external. 

 The individual may be nothing but a poor 

 hypochondriac, or he may be broken by real 

 physical misfortunes, or the failure of those 

 whom he loved and trusted, or of some cause 

 which he had worked for. For the man who 

 is suffering or dying in consciously doing his 

 duty there is probably no such illusion. It is 

 harder to see that the man who has failed, 

 perhaps through his own defects or those of 

 others, or through what appears to have been 

 mere mischance, can still be at one, and feel 

 himself at one, with the wider personality that 

 lives in him and will still live when he, as a 

 mere individual, perishes. 



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