Men
working for the State will make the most extraordinary sacrifices; but
they stand stubbornly and sullenly as disturbers and blockers of all
industry which is run for private profit. Is it not clear of the two
policies for the State to adopt, to promote personal interests among its
citizens or to unite men for the general good, that the first path is
full of danger to the State, while through the other men will march
cheerfully, though it be to death, in defense of the State. Something, a
real life above the individual, acts through the national being, and
would almost suggest to us that Heaven cannot fully manifest its will to
humanity through the individual, but must utter itself through
multitudes. There must be an orchestration of humanity ere it can echo
divine melodies. In real truth we are all seeking in the majesties we
create for union with a greater Majesty.
I wrote in an earlier page that the ancient conception of Nature as a
manifestation of spirit was incarnating anew in the minds of modern
thinkers; that Nature was no longer conceived of as material or static
in condition, but as force and continual motion; that they were trying
to identify human will with this arcane energy, and let the forces of
Nature manifest with more power in society.
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