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What Is and What Might Be

CHAPTER VI
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Or rather it is the joy of goodwill because it is the joy of well-being, because well-being would not be well-being if it did not ceaselessly generate goodwill.
That love is "the fulfilling of the law," and therefore the keystone of every sound system of ethics, is a truth on which I need scarcely insist.

The final proof that the ethics of self-realisation are sound to the core lies in the fact that the path of self-realisation, besides emancipating from egoism and sensuality, leads all who walk in it, first into the foreglow and then into the sunshine of love.
But it is with the social rather than the ethical aspect of self-realisation that I am now concerned.

And the social aspect of the fact which has just been stated is obviously of vital importance.
Love, which is commensurate with life, has innumerable phases.

One of these is what I have called the communal instinct,--the sense of belonging to a community, of being a vital part of it, of sharing in its life, of being what one is (in part at least) because one shares in its life.

If Socialism is to realise its noble dream, this instinct, strongly developed and directed towards the well-being of the whole social order, must become part of the normal equipment of every citizen.


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