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quenchable desire for bliss, a desire which ' hastens to 

 enjoyment, and in enjoyment pines to feel desire/ 

 Train such a detached individual by some form of highly 

 civilised cultivation, and you merely show him what 

 Paul called ' the law/ The law thus shown he here- 

 upon finds to be in opposition to his self-will. Sin, as 

 the Pauline phrase has it, ' revives/ 



" The individual, brought by his very cultivation to a 

 clearer consciousness of the conflict between his self- 

 will and the social laws which tradition inflicts upon 

 him, finds a war going on in his own members. His 

 life hereupon becomes only a sort of destruction of what 

 is dearest to him. For as a social befng, he has to 

 recognise both the might of his social order and the 

 dignity of its demands. But as a detached individual, 

 he naturally hates restraint; that is, as Paul says, he 

 hates the law. . . . There can be no true international 

 life unless the nations remain to possess it. There can 

 never be a spiritual body unless that body, like the 

 ideal Pauline church, has its many members. The citi- 

 zens of the world of the future will not lose their dis- 

 tinct countries. What will pass away will be that in- 

 sistent mutual hostility which gives to the nations of 

 to-day, even in times of peace, so many of the hateful 

 and distracting characters of a detached individual man. 

 In case of human individuals, the sort of individualism 

 which is opposed to the spirit of loyalty, is what I have 

 already called the individualism of the detached individ- 

 ual, the individualism of the man who belongs to no com- 

 munity which he loves and to which he can devote him- 

 self with all his heart, and his soul, and his mind, and 

 his strength. In so far as liberty and democracy, and 

 independence of soul, mean that sort of individualism, 

 they never have saved men and never can save men. 



