“My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.”
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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
