The motto of Fascism is order and hierarchy. This is the necessary consequence of its taking into consideration always the aim and its actual realisation. If efficiency is to be ensured to any organisation from the family upward it is evident that every member of it must play his part in the way which is most likely to ensure efficiency. Yet this notion of discipline is a trifle more modern than it sounds, at least in Italy. Nothing can better illustrate it than the example of a football Captain and his men. The boy who acts as Captain, let us say John Smith, has no authority over his fellows, except when, ceasing to be John Smith, he is Captain of the team, and while they are actually playing, practising or arranging a game. His authority is not personal, it is actual to the sport interests of the team, or the school they represent, so that it is not demeaning to any of his team to accept the dictates of his authority. Indeed the boys’ commonsense is strong enough, in England at least, to make them realise an idea which they would comprehend with great difficulty in its speculative form. To them it is obvious that their Captain’s authority is as absolute as it is actual and impersonal. He is Captain as long as he is an actual value, as long as he is a factor of efficiency to the general play of his side. His authority does not diminish one whit of the players’ liberty, because the will of every single player is that his side should win, and such identity is that which makes the actual reality both of the team as an individual, or rather as a person, in the world of sport and of the single players as members of that team. The Captain is entrusted with the co-ordination of a number of wills, and their welding into one in his own person, so that each boy freely wants what all want. Divergencies are merely negative—as is constantly shown by the negative scoring of sides in which first-rate men play without this unification of their single wills. Thus football comes to illustrate perfectly the most difficult of all the Gentilian notions instinctively acted upon by people who will never be able to read one line of Gentile’s works, the notion of liberty taken as actual identification of each single will which is liberty with the common will which is law. Again the boys’ commonsense would find it as ridiculous to argue over their Captain’s orders when playing, as to go on considering him as their superior when the game is over, or when they have detected among themselves a better Captain. Thereby they teach the world a deep truth, that is to say that no value can be considered as static, and that its realisation being dynamic and actual it cannot be achieved once for all, but is a continuous process of developing one’s own efficiency.