8/19 You are not exempt, favourable as is your position. Let me add, that if you find the cause of unhappiness in this larger man, you will find it in yourself. Think! Where does it lie ?" "You have given me the clue," replied Mr.Markland, "in your picture of the voluntarily aggregated man. In this involuntary man of common society, to which, as you have said, we all bear relation as members, each seeks his own good, regardless of the good of the whole; and there is, therefore, a constant war among the members." "And if not war, suffering," said Mr.Allison. "This man is sustained by a community of uses among the members. |