ABSTRACT
The whole of this chapter will inevitably be concerned with ideals and not with actualities, except so far as actual conditions illustrate essential principles. It was argued above that sympathy and willing co-operation, wherever they are found, are intrinsically good. In this chapter it is considered how far the State can achieve these ends. If it is true that the achievement of nation-wide solidarity of feeling and purpose requires war, and if even in war it is liable to be swiftly destroyed by inevitable reaction, then surely the price is too heavy, and the people had better look, for centres of sympathy and co-operation, to small and non-political units such as families, laboratories, farms or friends. For fellowship between men seeing each other every day and working visibly together is a natural growth, whereas the national feeling requires an artificial stimulus.
