ABSTRACT
The argument is that the concept of an almost unlimited inner freedom, as it has been conveyed to the working-classes through increasingly shallow channels, has flowed into and absorbed the older notion of tolerance, and taken it much farther than it had gone before. The tolerant phrases have been joined by others in similar dress; the new depreciate the old, and together they become the ritual uniforms of a shared unwillingness to admit that freedom can have its punishments. The chapter suggest that the sense of the importance and the predominant rightness of the group is being linked to, and increasingly made to subserve, a callow democratic egalitarianism, which is itself the necessary ground for the activities of the really popular publicists. Democratic egalitarianism, paradoxically, requires the continuance of the 'Them' and 'Us' idea in some of its poorer forms.
