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integration, the cause which Mr. Compton Leith 

 attempted to define to us in Sirenica when he 

 described it as a passion more powerful in man than 

 any animal desire. 



The science of this Cause is the science of power 

 in civilization. The manner in which it con- 

 structively works in the individual mind is well 

 described by James in his Text Book of Psychology, 

 although he did not touch those wider collective 

 aspects to be discussed later in Chapter IX. 1 A 

 leader-writer in the Times 2 recently accurately 

 described the emotion of the ideal, when he spoke 

 of it as giving that inward call in the human 

 mind under the influence of which every human 

 institution has the power of prophesying to us its 

 finer self so as to make us for ever discontented 

 with its present state. 



Under this influence the human mind rises 

 permanently above all reasoned theories of utili- 

 tarian conduct. It is thus that the higher religious 

 beliefs of the world have permanently influenced 

 successive generations of men to seek to reach those 

 apparently unattainable inward ideals of perfec- 

 tion which it is characteristic of every living religion 

 that it sets before its adherents. It is thus that 

 Professor GDbert Murray saw the Greek mind in 



1 See p. 227. 3 Times, 25 October 1913. 



