PATRIOTISM

The creative social environment, since it eludes sense, must be
represented symbolically.--Ambiguous limits of a native country,
geographical and moral.--Sentimental and political patriotism.--The
earth and the race the first objects of rational loyalty.--Race, when
distinct, the greatest of distinctions.--"Pure" races may be morally
sterile.--True nationality direction on a definite ideal.--Country well
represented by domestic and civic religion.--Misleading identification
of country with government.--Sporting or belligerent
patriotism.--Exclusive patriotism rational only when the government
supported is universally beneficent.--Accidents of birth and training
affect the ideal.--They are conditions and may contribute
something.--They are not ends.--The symbol for country may be a man and
may become an idol.--Feudal representation sensitive but
partial.--Monarchical representation comprehensive but
treacherous.--Impersonal symbols no advantage.--Patriotism not
self-interest, save to the social man whose aims are ideal Pages 160-183

CHAPTER VIII

IDEAL SOCIETY

The gregarious instinct all social instincts in suspense.--It gives rise
to conscience or sympathy with the public voice.--Guises of public
opinion.--Oracles and revelations.--The ideal a measure for all
existences and no existence itself.--Contrast between natural and
intellectual bonds.--Appeal from man to God, from real to ideal
society.--Significant symbols revert to the concrete.--Nature a symbol
for destiny.--Representative notions have also inherent
values.--Religion and science indirectly cognitive and directly
ideal.--Their opposite outlook.--In translating existence into human
terms they give human nature its highest exercise.--Science should be
mathematical and religion anthropomorphic.--Summary of this book Pages
184-205

REASON IN SOCIETY

CHAPTER I

LOVE

[Sidenote: Fluid existences have none but ideal goals.]

If man were a static or intelligible being, such as angels are thought
to be, his life would have a single guiding interest, under which all
other interests would be subsumed. His acts would explain themselves
without looking beyond his given essence, and his soul would be like a
musical composition, which once written out cannot grow different and
once rendered can ask for nothing but, at most, to be rendered over
again. In truth, however, man is an animal, a portion of the natural
flux; and the con