What really
prevents an organic unity in Ireland is the economic individualism of
our lives. The science of economics deals with the efforts of men to
mine out of nature the food, minerals, and materials necessary to
preserve life. There is nothing more certain than that where men work
alone or only with the aid of their families they are little higher than
the animals. When they tend to unite civilization begins. Then arise
the towers, the temples, the cities, the achievements of the architect
and engineer. The earth is tapped of its arcane energies, the very air
yields to us its mysterious powers. We control the etheric waves and
send the message of our deeds across the ocean. Yet in the midst of
these vast external manifestations of power, multitudes of men and women
live in squalor, isolated in their labors, living in the slums of
cities; and this, if we examine it, comes about because the
organization of human energies into a harmonious unity is not complete.
There is really no lack of food, clothing, building material, land.
Nature has provided bountifully for more myriads than we are likely to
see peopling the earth.
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