The great state : essays in construction / by H.G. Wells [and others].

Date:
1912
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Credit: The great state : essays in construction / by H.G. Wells [and others]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    we find Ordered Love, the perfect combination of the two centres, Life and Mind. Its sheltered atmosphere of the passions and affections intro- duces conscience, shapes character and the sense of character, and alone renders morality intelligible. Love such as that between Man and Wife, Mother and Child, Child and Mother, is not emo- tional only, but also the supremest kind of intelli- gence—an intelligence that feels forth after the past and future of its object, grasping and en- swathing it with memory and foresight, and a tenderness absolutely limitless in its dreams and reaches of intuition. To the depth and quality of this kind of understanding, all other understand- ings are as nothing. In such almost silent and selfless Love, the blindly moving omnipotential Principle surges everywhere out of the ground of the world, and is seen disengaged, glowing, naked, pure, and at play. Created by and round that life- glow one discerns the true Family; the under- group of the four wrinkled and elder persons nearing the subsidence of death, the two central and mature, the three or four young; and beyond them, in twilight, the outer kindred. All political thinking has been obscured by taking the individual as the human unit. There are no abstract social truths about individuals. Could our custom-blind vision pierce the physical surfaces of society to behold its real shaping forces, it would see cells, cup-like shapes of group-consciousness and emo- tion, floating perpetually, invisibly, over the globe,