Individualism And After the Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered in the Sheldonian
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. . The corporate life here must be subservient to the lives of the parts, instead of the lives of the parts being sub- servient to the corporate life. ' If we scrutinize closely the terms of this statement we must, I think, recognize it as epitomizing, in a manner so complete as to be found nowhere else, the spirit and meaning of the phase of thought known as individualism. Spencer's saying that the corporate life must be sub- ordinate to the lives of the units, and not the units to the corpor...ate life, represents probably the highest point touched in Western history by the claims of individualism. It marks the distance which had been travelled from the Greek theory of society. But it marks also, I think, no less decidedly the position to which we will 1 Westminster Review, January, 1860. 8 Principles of Sociology, 212-71. 24 INDIVIDUALISM AND AFTER in future look back as the starting-point of a new development. Now if with this passage from Spencer in mind we turn again to the history of our times, nothing can be more significant than the effect which the more organic con- ception of society may be seen to be producing on the doctrine of evolution itself in its applications to social theories.
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