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Thus, in the domain of traditional values, the object of social 

 polity should be to ensure a greater integration of social life. 

 Not that we would, under any circumstances, sacrifice the 

 individual to the society ; but we would insist on the necessity 

 of giAdng to the individual an aim which shall transcend and 

 suipass his own individuality. Placed face to face with the 

 enigma of the universe, with the great enigma of life itself, the 

 individual soon becomes aware of the insignificance of his own 

 personality in the face of the great Unknown ; and, conscious of 

 his impotence to solve the secrets of existence, conscious of the 

 impotence of his own life, he is naturally driven to suicide, to 

 alcohohsm, to insanity. Here are great categories of social 

 pathology, the very root of which lies in disgust with life. And 

 this dissatisfaction with the conditions of life can only result if 

 the conditions of life are not such as to enable us to live com- 

 'pletdy. To live fully, to realise the maximum of life, is the aim 

 of organic evolution ; the maximum for the species, in that it 

 endeavours to realise the greatest possible multiplication of 

 organisms ; and the maximum for the individual, in that it 

 impels the individual to strive after an ever greater intensity 

 of his individual Ufe. But the life which is integral, which is 

 to be in accordance with the biological law, which is, therefore, to 

 be " whole," must be a life which does not confine itself to the 

 individual as its measure, but which must have other interests, 

 which surpass the individual ; and which, by giving the individual 

 an interest in his race, teach him that he is but a component of 

 the society to which he is bound by ties of intimate solidarity. 



Tujning now to the domain of organic values, what should 

 social polity set itself as its object ? Obviously the physical 

 amelioration of the race through that of the individuals which 

 compose it; and, secondly, the increase of man's power over 

 the forces of Nature. The first object is so evident that it requires 

 no further justification. We would only remark that any 

 progress which society would realise in the domain of tradition 



