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Christian religion through his reason. In all cases 

 the individual held to them as part of an inheritance 

 which has been imposed on him from without by 

 causes in which his reason had had no share. 



In the integrating systems of Power in the world 

 this basis of things is being swept away. In the 

 social integration where Power rests on the causes 

 described in the last chapter the story of humanity 

 is becoming with increasing intensity the vast 

 tragic drama of duty, of sacrifice, of renunciation. 

 All the winning systems of Power in the social 

 integration are those in which the centre of gravity 

 is outside the limits of the individual's own con- 

 sciousness, and in which, in the long sequences o'. 

 cause and effect, the units are subordinated to a 

 meaning far beyond that of their own lives and 

 interests through the emotion of the ideal. Reason, 

 in reality, is quite unable to carry any of us from 

 the principles of the individual integration into the 

 principles of the social integration. The individual 

 dies that the world may live, cannot really be ex- 

 pressed in any terms of the individual's reason. 

 Are you willing to be damned for the glory of 

 God ? is a question which cannot be answered in 

 the affirmative by any process of reason. But when 

 human nature staggering upwards with its face 

 towards the infinite and universal gives this answer, 



