86 THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS 



require ethical categories and not even such pseudo- 

 ethical categories as those of Utilitarianism will serve. 



But the very essence of the ethical attitude is the union 

 and concurrent realisation of self and not-selj)f _the good 

 that is personal with the good that is common. In the 

 next article I shall exemplify this truth by reference to pri- 

 vate property, and to the general relations of Individualism 

 and Socialism. 



