Socialism, then communism, then nihilism, follow in inevitable sequence.

That even the Far Oriental, with all his numbing impersonality, has not touched this goal may at least suggest that individuality is a fact.
But first, what do we know about its existence ourselves?
Very early in the course of every thoughtful childhood an event takes place, by the side of which, to the child himself, all other events sink into insignificance.

It is not one that is recognized and chronicled by the world, for it is wholly unconnected with action.

No one but the child is aware of its occurrence, and he never speaks of it to others.
Yet to that child it marks an epoch.

So intensely individual does it seem that the boy is afraid to avow it, while in reality so universal is it that probably no human being has escaped its influence.