“Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.”
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
