If this is so, the inference is irresistible that the externalism of "civilised" life, with the repressive and devitalising system of education which it necessitates, is responsible for the greater part of the immorality--I am using the word in its widest sense--of the present age.

Contrariwise, whatever tends to foster growth tends also, and in an equal degree, to moralise Man's life; for, on the one hand, by transforming the desire for self-aggrandisement into the desire, first for continued growth and then for out-growth, it gives the soul strength to eliminate the poison of egoism from its system; and, on the other hand, by vitalising the soul and so strengthening its powers of resistance, it enables it to beat off the attacks of those enemies of its well-being which serve under the banner of sensuality.

If this is so, the inference is irresistible that self-realisation is the only effective remedy for the immorality of the present age.
The comparison between the two schemes of life may be carried a stage further.

If egoism and sensuality are the two primary vices, the secondary vices will be the various ways and means by which egoism and sensuality try to compass their respective ends.

Let us select for consideration one group of these vices,--the important group which fall under the general head of _untruthfulness_.