This morality, this organic, vital, almost physiological morality of the common life--which means a quick response of each unit to the needs of the other units, and much the same in the body politic as health means in the physical body--must underlie and be the basis of the societies of the future. It will mean the liberation of a thousand and one instincts, desires and capacities which since our childhood's days have lain buried within us, concealed and ignored because we have thought them wrong or unworthy, when really all they have wanted has been recognition and the opportunity to become healthy _by_ recognition--by the process in fact of balancing against each other, and against opposing and complementary elements, and so finding their places in the Whole. On this new Morality of acceptance and recognition and wide-reaching redemption, it will be possible, as I have already said, to graft not only a stronger expression of individuality all round, but also a higher and more varied and more gracious life of _personal affection_--which now alas! lies like a thing wounded and half dead. Its establishment will, I take it, mean the oncoming of a society which will liberate personal affection and love--will liberate forces hitherto artificially crippled because their liberation would tear our current morality of formulæ to mere rags and tatters. It means, I take it, the oncoming of a society whose main motive will no longer be the struggle for Bread (since that is ruled out by the enormous growth of our wealth-producing powers), but the desire for the satisfaction of the Heart--thus preparing no doubt new and unforeseen difficulties and sufferings, yet filling life with such beautiful things that the motives of greed and the mean pursuit of money, which now weigh upon the world, will be like an evil nightmare of the Past from which the dawn delivers us. FOOTNOTES: [42] _Maitrayana-Brahmana-Upanishad_, vi. 34, 4. [43] _Taittiriyaka-Up_, ii. 9, etc. [44] Spinoza's _Ethic_, part iv. [45] It must be remembered that Nietzsche supposes three stages of the spirit--(1) the Camel, (2) the Lion, and (3) the Child. And the Beyond-man properly corresponds to the last stage. [46] _Daily News_, December 29, 1906. [47] I need hardly say that this does not mean, as Nietzsche so often and sardonically suggests, the realisation of the _common-place_ life, but something very different. [48] Many Japanese committed suicide on account of not being allowed to join in the Russian War. See also Lafcadio Hearn's description of the habitual dignity and courtesy of the youth of Japan.--_Life and Letters_, vol. i, pp. 12, 113. [49] This morality, indeed, may be said to be implicit in much of the teaching of Christ; yet, curiously enough, it has never been seriously adopted by the Churches. And as to the regard for animals as ends in themselves, the Roman Catholic Church, I believe, positively repudiates any such attitude. APPENDIX