This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." 1 If a man's interests are his true being, so that for him 'to live' is to serve the cause with which, as we say, he has 'identified himself, ' then, in a most real sense, the seat of his soul ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned." 1 If a man's interests are his true being, so that for him 'to live' is to serve the cause with which, as we say, he has 'identified himself, ' then, in a most real sense, the seat of his soul and the fount of its activities is in his world, and pre-eminently in his social world. The We are tempted, at each step, to regard such paradox. statements as metaphors, and to retract their sober meaning as soon as we make them. But I believe that the existence and possibility of society are not intelligible on any other terms; and that it is the influence of metaphor, the practice, only partly avoidable, of explaining the things of mind which we cannot see, in terms of things we touch and handle, which leads us to lower their meaning. It is difficult to hold at the same time that, of all the things that we can know, minds are at once the most independent and lonely, and also the most intensely interdependent and one. And yet, it is questionable if the history of human society, and, in particular, of the State, exemplifies any fact 1 John xv. 4, 6. more fully than this: that as it moves towards its ideal and attains its true self, its unity as a whole becomes deeper and more secure in the loyalty of its citizens, and at the same time their liberty within it becomes greater. The power of the good State empowers the citizen, and the power of the good citizen empowers the State. The first condition of comprehending how this can be is to hold fast to the fact that it is. But it is remarkable how shallow and intermittent our recognition of this fact is apt to be. In the ordinary course of our daily life the affairs of the State appear to...
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