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In such a democratic society as this, it is plain, the evils of individualism and also the evils of control will tend to disappear. Perfect identity of individual and social will we should not expect to be attained anywhere.
It recognized that its students had been brought up in the free, simple, frank way, that all came from a region where individualism was a religion, with self-reliance as the cardinal principle of faith and self-development as the goal. There were no dormitories at Battle Field then. Olivia and Pauline lived in one of the hundred or more boarding-houses a big, square, white "frame," kept by a Mrs.
The Australian Government, for example, in order to induce farmers to extend the area of cultivation, has guaranteed "a fixed minimum price of 4s." for all wheat grown on the newly cultivated land. The course of events has shown the temporary collapse of economic individualism in the face of the European crisis.
That is a great truth which goes to the heart of the whole complex problem of eugenics and birth-control. As Perrycoste has well argued, biology is altogether against the narrow Individualism which seeks to oppose Collective Individualism.
In point of fact they do not share the Progressist idea, that much can be done by legislation to ameliorate the condition of the masses of the population, nor do they see that in a country like New Zealand, where labour is dear, food cheap, and the climate mild and equable, their condition need necessarily be so deplorable. They still cherish the old theories of individualism.
They moved in herds dependent on their leaders. That, too, was a bad training for the individualism of civil life. It tended to destroy personal initiative and willpower. Another evil of the abnormal life of war sowed the seeds of insanity in the brains of men not strong enough to resist it. Sexually they were starved. For months they lived out of the sight and presence of women.
They must also be taken into account when we seek to explain why it was possible but a little later to develop out of the frontiersmen fighting armies which under competent generals could overmatch the red coat and the Indian alike. Individualism in Religious Matters. The Great Revival.
It is evident that in present society, based on individual property that is to say, on plunder, and on a narrow-minded, and therefore foolish individualism facts of this kind are necessarily limited; agreements are not always perfectly free, and often they have a mean, if not execrable aim.
Freedom was valued not for the sake of lawlessness, but for the sake of a clearer recognition of the proper laws of things, of the principles that lie in nature and civilization and control them inherently. Individualism in this sense is not sceptical.
It was his individual conviction that individualism had ruined England, and he had set himself deliberately to eradicate this vice from the character of his tenants.
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